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CRITICAL LITERACY:

Fostering Engagement Through Analyzing Data, Justice and Fairness

Marina Anglo & Julieanna Nelson-Saunders

Bucknell-Boulder-Mozilla

2024

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Just Computing Fellowship

The Just Computing Fellowship is funded by a grant from Mozilla’s Responsible Computing Challenge. Fellows of this program come from different disciplines to bring their perspectives on equity, power, and privilege, addressing the impacts of computing and associated technologies on society.

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Our Project

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“Save me from this reading!”

“Don’t worry! I have a reading guide for you!”

“How do I get students engaged in this reading?”

= Engaged students, happy professor

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Our Approach

The Process:

  • Choosing articles
  • Creating reading guides
  • Feedback & Revisions

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Reading Guides

Pre-reading Guide Content

  • Mixed media
  • More reading

Reading Guide Content

  • Preliminary questions
  • Text-based questions
  • Big picture questions
  • Reflection questions
  • Takeaways

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Pre-Reading Guide Content

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RG: Preliminary Questions

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RG: Text-Based Questions

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RG: Big Picture Questions

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RG: Reflection

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RG: Takeaways

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How are these guides effective?

  • Students
    • Helps with engaging with reading more effectively
    • Making connections to other issues/experiences outside of article
    • Humanizing data, algorithms, statistics

BEFORE

AFTER

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How are these guides effective?

  • Faculty
    • Given set of readings & questions that are ready to use for course
    • Can use it in different ways
    • Mixing up parts

BEFORE

AFTER

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Pre-Reading Guide Content

Preliminary

Text-Based

Big Picture

Reflection

Takeaways

Preliminary

Text-Based

Big Picture

Takeaways

Reflection

Faculty #1

Faculty #2

Complete Reading Guide:

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THANKS!

Contact Information

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Marina Anglo:

ma045@bucknell.edu

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Julieanna Nelson-Saunders:

jgns001@bucknell.edu

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What’s been done before *fix this slide*

  • Increase engagement with critical texts
    • Facilitate comprehension
    • Leads to improving reading skills
  • Supplementary videos/articles
    • Gives context to the reader

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  • Mentioning other readings
    • Promoting College Reading Completion…
    • Optional reading guides
      • Motivation → wanting class discussion to be better

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What’s next?

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The Problem

  • Lack of critical engagement
  • Connecting real-world implications
  • “Objective” numbers
  • Impact on society and marginalized communities
  • Diversity and inclusion in STEM courses

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Our Goal

We want to help students engage in discussions and analysis of texts.

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Focus in classroom settings:

  • Data-related classes
  • Foundation seminars
  • Class discussions

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