By Leila Meyer, Campus Technology
High school students in New York City Public Schools will begin learning data literacy this month through MIT’s new City Digits project, which aims to promote civic engagement among youth while teaching data collection and analysis skills. The first module of the project, called Local Lotto, was released to classrooms in November 2014. Sarah Williams, assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning and director of the Civic Data Design Lab in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation “to think about how to create a mapping tool that could teach youth about a civic topic while supporting their mathematics education,” according to a news release from MIT. The City Digits project is the result of that grant.
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