19, Dec 2024 Posted by Dara learning lab

Bop or Flop?: Integrating Music and Data Science in an Elementary Classroom

The importance of data literacies and the shortage of research surrounding data science in elementary schools motivated this research-practice partnership (RPP) between researchers and teachers from a STEM elementary school. We used a narrative case study methodology to describe the instructional practices of one music teacher who co-designed a data science curricular unit during a […]
19, Dec 2024 Posted by Dara learning lab

Exploring elementary teachers’ perceptions of data science and curriculum co-design through professional development

Data science and computational thinking (CT) skills are important STEM literacies necessary to make informed daily decisions. In elementary schools, particularly in rural areas, there is little instruction and limited research towards understanding and developing these literacies. Using a Research-Practice Partnership model (RPP; Coburn & Penuel, 2016) we conducted multimethod research investigating nine elementary teachers’ […]
19, Dec 2024 Posted by Dara learning lab

Millennial activism within Nigerian Twitterscape: From mobilization to social action of# ENDSARS protest

This article demonstrates how Nigerian youths responded to the tragic shooting of a Nigerian by agents of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a unit of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF), in Delta State, Nigeria. We examined the activities that characterized the #ENDSARS protests on social media and subsequent physical protests that represent youths’ ability to plan, […]