What does data literacy means for you (as an educator)nowadays?
A collaborative autoethnography
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https://doi.org/10.21556/edutec.2023.86.2907Keywords:
Critical Data Literacy, Datafication, Postdigital positionings, EducatorAbstract
Despite progress in data literacy frameworks associated with a critical discussion of datafication, educators are still perplexed when it comes to working with these issues in their everyday teaching practice. In part, this is due to the complexity of the data infrastructures that permeate educational practice itself. In this context, it seems particularly appropriate to understand the discursive phenomena, the construction of professional practise and therefore the educators' positionings around the issues of datafication in general, and the development of critical data literacy, namely, "postdigital positinings".
This paper proposes a collaborative autoethnographic analysis of the professional experiences of the three authors, as educators.
As women with complex migrant identities, with roots in the Global South and at the same time, bearers of European métisages, our pathways meet at the crossover of an international project in which we develop materials and design educational activities. Our history lies on an intersectional basis that allows us to express rich positionalities, full of examples and resources that can be resounding notes for the construction of agentic educational practices in this field of post-digital forces.
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