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Creating Data Literate Students provides high school librarians and educators with foundational domain knowledge to teach a new subset of information literacy skills - data and statistical literacy, including: statistics and data comprehension; data as argument; and data visualization. Data - both raw and displayed in visualizations - can clarify or confuse, confirm or deny, persuade or deter. Students often learn that numbers are objective, though data in the real world is rarely so. In fact, visualized data - even from authoritative sources - can sometimes be anything but objective. Librarians and classroom educators need to be as fluent with quantitative data as they are with text in order to support high schoolers as they engage with data in formal and informal settings. We asked contributors to this volume - experts in high school curriculum, information literacy and/or data literacy - to explore the intersections between data and curriculum and identify high-impact strategies for demystifying data for educators and students alike.

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Kristin Fontichiaro is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal investigator on the Supporting Librarians in Adding Data Literacy Skills to Information Literacy Instruction project (IMLS RE-00-15-0113-15). A Library Journal Mover and Shaker and member of the American Library Association's inaugural class of Emerging Leaders, she has written several books for educators, librarians, and K-12 readers. Jo Angela Oehrli is a former high school and middle school teacher who helps students find information on a wide range of topics as a Learning Librarian at the University of Michigan Libraries -- Ann Arbor. In addition, she supports the students in the Women in Science and Engineering Residential Program and the students in the Michigan Research Community Residential Program as well as undergraduates across campus. She has published articles on library instruction, served as Chair of ALA LIRT's Top Twenty Committee, serves on the ACRL Instruction Section Executive Board & the LOEX Advisory Board, and has worked as an adjunct lecturer for UM's School of Information & the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. She also supports the research and instructional needs for those throughout the university community who are studying children's literature at any level. Amy Lennexhas worked in the publishing industry for nearly 20 years editing series nonfiction, middle-grade fiction, and picture books. She's also the author of Personal Data Management, part of the eight-book Data Geek series published by Cherry Lake Publishing. She provided project management and editing support for the Supporting Librarians in Adding Data Literacy Skills to Information Literacy Instruction project.

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