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Critical Data Stories through Remixing
Youth are avid creators and consumers of data-related claims through their participation on social media sites, in which they view, produce, and share content. They remix content, building off one another’s videos, gifs, and memes to represent and discuss topics they care about. This NSF-funded project explores the development of curricula and tools with middle and high school Math and English teachers that will leverage youth’s practices with digital media remixing to develop argumentation skills and the critical data literacies necessary to participate as informed citizens. Students will explore sociopolitical issues as they create data stories by synthesizing information across data sources and media.
Afro-Latino Youth and Information Practices
This project investigates the digital information practices of Afro-Latino youth, focusing on their engagement with mental health content on TikTok. It aims to understand how racial and ethnic identity dimensions shape their information behaviors in digital spaces.
Contemplative Perspectives on Biofeedback Technology
In the past decade mindfulness has both become a relatively familiar practice in the United States, and a practice that has its own Westernized adaptation that emphasizes certain cultural norms such as relaxation, efficiency, and productivity. The use of biofeedback technology to support mindfulness – through sensors and algorithms – can be understood through this bifurcated lens of Westernized mindfulness and the more traditional Eastern origins. The question of how contemplative scholars and practitioners view the role of biofeedback in mindfulness practices remains an important and relatively unexplored question. This three-year project explores how biofeedback for supporting mindfulness, through a consumer-grade electroencephalograph (EEG) headband, is understood by contemplative scholars and practitioners.
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Building Data Literacy through the Arts
This NSF-funded cross-institutional project explores the value of arts-integrated instruction for promoting middle school students’ data literacy.
Bicultural: Co-designing with Latinx Youth
This project explored the question: how do Latinx youths’ cross cultural identities influence how technology is understood and used to manage their emotional lives?
EmoComp
Many digital learning tools allow us to explore scientific concepts through computational modeling. Tools like Scratch provide youth with environments to create models of gravity, velocity, etc. This project explores how such tools could be designed to help learners explore emotional literacy concepts such as managing stress, happiness, and depression.
Situated Mindfulness through Ubiquitous Computing
This project explored the question: how might the affordances of mobile approaches to mindfulness support forms of situated mindfulness?