Data increasingly mediates how we understand the world. As such, there is growing interest
in designing initiatives to help young people learn about data—not only the techno-…

Comprehensive spatial knowledge is vital for making good planning decisions - whether it be
for planning infrastructure, public projects or addressing other community needs. Often it is …

In this paper, we describe a twelve-week Apps for Social Justice course that we taught at an
after-school program. Students read social justice literature, identified local community …

Our work is based on three premises: (a) children’s experiential, everyday knowledge about
local spaces is a rich resource for science learning, (b) involvement in data modeling …

The ability to interpret, evaluate, and make data-based decisions is critical in the age of big
data. Normative scripts around the use of data position them as a privileged epistemic form …

Significant resources have been directed towards K-12 computing and data education over
the past ten years, as part of what has come to be known as the CSforAll initiative. This …

While new technologies have expanded users’ ability to submit and view geographic data,
most users are still excluded from GIS design and decision-making. Local Ground addresses …

Leadership in Public Organizations is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of public sector
leadership for upper division and graduate students. In addition to a full, up-to-date review …

The projects in this interactive poster symposium explore ways of engaging learners with
social justice issues through the design and study of data literacy interventions. These …

Constructing, sharing, and contesting models of the natural world is central to scientific inquiry
(Latour, 1999) yet in K-12 science classrooms, students are rarely engaged in modeling …