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Title: Exploring critical digital literacy dimensions: Data literacy
Author: Raffaghelli, Juliana Elisa  
Gouseti, Anastasia
Others: DETECT project (KA2-ERASMUS+)
Abstract: The term "data" is becoming probably a sort of buzzword. What do we mean with "data"? How do you feel about the word "data"? And why should we need to be "data literate"? You might also come across "Big Data", "Open Data" ,"Data Science", Datafication" and "Datafied" as words. And overall, some of this words have positive connotations and others, very negative implications for our lives. Clearly, we deal with a problem with many facets. As educators, we need to explore them to understand which is the message we want to cater to our students. Overall, "data" refers to the digital data collected through our interaction with digital spaces, apps, and smart technologies, including the Internet of Things. And while this data might be part of open, public knowledge and could be mined to produce new human activities, like Artificial Intelligence, there are many connected problems. Not only the form into which data are collected, without the consent of the people from which such data are extracted, could be a concern. Also, the surveillance, the end users' manipulation through nudges and recommendations, or the misrepresentation of collectives are emerging issues connected to all the practices around data. As a result, there is increasing concern in developing data literacy. Data Literacy has received great attention over the last few years in relation to school practices and has been identified as one of the dimensions of the DETECT Critical Digital LIteracies framework. Although the issue of Data Protection is usually addressed by relevant policies at institutional level (mainly in relation to GDPR compliance) less attention has been paid to raising educators as well as students' awareness regarding the various aspects and sub-dimensions of data literacy. Within the DETECT project the aim is to develop educators' understandings of the multifacet issue of data literacy and also support them with enhancing their students' practices in relation to data protection and safety, the use of opn data and data justice. This interactive, self-paced learning resource introduces three perspectives on data literacy: Data Protection and Safety -Open Data to develop critical citizens' data literacy - Data Justice: exploring the dark side of data. The resource can be used either in educators' workshops or continuing training. Also it could be a good source of learning for initial teachers' education. Moreover, the teachers could adopt some of the concepts for self-paced learning aimed at design lesson plans on data literacy for secondary school learners. The web-resource can be accessed at this website: https://sites.google.com/view/lttadataliteracy/home?authuser=0
Keywords: critical digital literacy
data literacy
data justice
open data
data privacy
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/lecture
Issue Date: 15-May-2021
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/  
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