Anna Amato Shao

Professional Title

PhD Candidate

Organization/Institution

About Me (Bio)

Anna Amato Shao is a PhD student at NYU in Educational Communication and Technology. She received her M.A. at Teachers College, Columbia University, in Cognitive Studies in Education. Her current research interests include developing and researching arts-integrated data literacy curriculum through design-based implementation research. She focuses on understanding the role of narrative art practices in developing critical data literacies and how to support K-12 teachers in co-designing and implementing data storytelling units within their class.

Keywords

Educational Technology

Citations of DRK-12 or Related Work (DRK-12 work is denoted by *)

*Amato, A., Matuk, C., Des Portes, K., Silander, M., Tes, M., Vacca, R., & Woods, P. (2022). Postcards and photo walks: Telling community data stories through photography. In Chinn, C., Tan, E., Chan, C., & Kali, Y. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2022 (pp. 1493–1496). International Society of the Learning Sciences.

*Amato, A., Beale, J., Matuk, C., Matuk, C., DesPortes, K., Tes, M., Silander, M., Vacca, R., Woods, P. (2023). Critical Data Storytelling through Photography. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Learning Sciences (ISLS).

*Matuk, C., Amato, A., Davidesco, I., Rubel, L., Stornaiuolo, A., Blikstein, P., Chance, B., DesPortes, K., Eloy, A., Fuhrmann, T., & Others. (2022). Data Storytelling in the Classroom. In Chinn, C., Tan, E., Chan, C., & Kali, Y. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2022 (pp. 1779–1786). International Society of the Learning Sciences.*Matuk, C., DesPortes, K., Amato, A., Vacca, R., Silander, M., Woods, P. J., & Tes, M. (2022). Tensions and synergies in arts‐integrated data literacy instruction: Reflections on four classroom implementations. British Journal of Educational Technology: Journal of the Council for Educational Technology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13257

*Matuk, C., DesPortes, K., Amato, A., Vacca, R., Silander, M., Woods, P. J., & Tes, M. (2022). Tensions and synergies in arts‐integrated data literacy instruction: Reflections on four classroom implementations. British Journal of Educational Technology: Journal of the Council for Educational Technology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13257

*Vacca, R., DesPortes, K., Tes, M., Silander, M., Amato, A., Matuk, C., & Woods, P. J. (2022). What Do You Meme? Students Communicating their Experiences, Intuitions, and Biases Surrounding Data Through Memes. Interaction Design and Children. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Camillia-Matuk/publication/3600010…

*Vacca, R., DesPortes, K., Tes, M., Silander, M., Matuk, C., Amato, A., & Woods, P. J. (2022). ”I happen to be one of 47.8%”: Social-Emotional and Data Reasoning in Middle School Students’ Comics about Friendship. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502086.

Anna Amato Shao

Building Students' Data Literacy through the Co-design of Curriculum by Mathematics and Art Teachers (Collaborative Research: Matuk)