TY - GEN
T1 - Dancing with Data
T2 - 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2022
AU - DesPortes, Kayla
AU - Vacca, Ralph
AU - Tes, Marian
AU - Woods, Peter J.
AU - Matuk, Camillia
AU - Amato, Anna
AU - Silander, Megan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© ISLS.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Data literacy is important for supporting individuals to incorporate information from research studies into their own perspectives and decision-making processes. However, it can be challenging for students to read, understand, and relate to data. Students have to be able to traverse the representational forms that data takes on (i.e., numerical, graphical, etc.) and connect it to their understanding of a topic. We explore the implementation of a co-designed data-dance unit in which middle school students created their own embodied metaphors to represent and communicate about graphs through dance. In analyzing dance artifacts and post-study interviews with the learners and teachers, we demonstrate how the creation of embodied metaphors in dance led to new ways of exploring the data as learners reflected on different perspectives on topics across numerical values, contexts, and implications.
AB - Data literacy is important for supporting individuals to incorporate information from research studies into their own perspectives and decision-making processes. However, it can be challenging for students to read, understand, and relate to data. Students have to be able to traverse the representational forms that data takes on (i.e., numerical, graphical, etc.) and connect it to their understanding of a topic. We explore the implementation of a co-designed data-dance unit in which middle school students created their own embodied metaphors to represent and communicate about graphs through dance. In analyzing dance artifacts and post-study interviews with the learners and teachers, we demonstrate how the creation of embodied metaphors in dance led to new ways of exploring the data as learners reflected on different perspectives on topics across numerical values, contexts, and implications.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85134007287
T3 - Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS
SP - 305
EP - 312
BT - International Collaboration toward Educational Innovation for All
A2 - Chinn, Clark
A2 - Tan, Edna
A2 - Chan, Carol
A2 - Kali, Yael
PB - International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
Y2 - 6 June 2022 through 10 June 2022
ER -