We’re happy to announce the Data Literacy Program’s (DLP’s) Winter 2024 Table of Contents! AKA Version 2.0! Just like its predecessor, it provides a preview of our published and planned Data Stories to help you pick Data Stories that fit your needs.
Our Digital Data Stories illustrate the confluence of science and humanities-based investigations in collected data about the past. They encourage learners to read, work with, analyze, argue, and communicate with data ethically. Beyond that, these open educational resources draw from a variety of data sources.
From published open access data sets to popular books to things you encounter in the world around you, each Data Story cultivates archaeological data literacy through practice. For those that want to see what’s upcoming (and don’t want to dig back through all our news articles!) you can use this Table of Contents to see what we have in store.
Since the publication of the Fall 2022 Table of Contents, we published two Data Stories in our Creative Series, It’s All in the Wrist (Bones): Archaeological Data as Artistic Inspiration and 30 Days to an Article: Archaeological Inspiration for Your Writing. Then in November 2023 we released pre-prints for two Data Stories in our Solo Series, The Road Most Traveled: An Archaeology Data-Centric Slow Observation Guide and Stop and Smell…the Material Culture: An Archaeology Data-Centric Slow Observation Guide. These Data Stories are part of our growing library of open educational resources promoting digital data literacy in archaeology.
Here’s our definition of Data Literacy for 2024 and beyond. It now highlights communicating!
Version 2.0 of the Table of Contents retains the organization of Version 1.0 and adds entries for brand-new Data Stories, updates the release dates for already listed Data Stories, and shifts to a different platform for hosting the Table of Contents. Moving forward, unless you grab a physical version at an event, the Table of Contents is now a living Google Document. That way we can easily update it to reflect changes as they come out and share them with our communities!
We hope that the Table of Contents gives you a taste of what kinds of educational resources you can use in your next class. Beyond that, our DLP Team would love to guest lecture in your class to help integrate our published, or prototype, Data Stories into your curriculum. So please reach out at datastories@opencontext.org!
