Co-designing data labs at the public library: Data literacy with, for, and by teens

Abstract. This poster presents research investigating youth data literacy at the public library. The Data Literacy with, for, and by Youth project is framed by principles of participatory design, and asks, how might an informal STEM learning environment such as the public library, support the development of the skills, knowledge, and dispositions that young people need for them to take charge of their data lives, from data creation to data use – to be, in short, data literate. The problem of how to approach something as complex as data literacy in the voluntary drop-in setting of informal, after-school sites of learning - the public library being one such place - guides this study. The aim of the project is to design, build, test, and evolve theory and practice around informal data literacy education alongside youth, with the goal of building a holistic, humanistic, and youth-oriented model of data literacy which incorporates social-awareness, critical approaches, and “goodness of fit” into STEM learning about data

Documentation and artistic production in the Yucatecan culture. Archive of experiences

[EN] This paper presents and analyzes an artistic project conducted by both authors during a residence in Yucatán, Mexico, 2016. The project, entitled Portrait' in' 25.'Mapping'Memories' between' Tunkás' and' Izamal is driven by the need to know and explore different places through personal experiences, to discover micropolitical sources and analyze the artist's involvement as an external agent in an 'unknown' local context. Through this work we find a chance to participate in a different context and convey the meaning of the set of rules that frame their memory, cultural identity and common spaces. It was launched through anthropological and ethnographic strategies, in a rather light and amateur sense, to offer a suitable playground for interviews, fieldwork and, the gathering of objects and documents. All at once these strategies allow us to develop a plastic work in which photography, audiovisual, performance and editing are an essential part for the interpretation and reinterpretation of the individuals, and the context we inhabit. We go across physical space and collect objects seemingly insignificant or unnoticed to put them under another point of view. In the course of these actions the recognition of micropolitical issues is awakened as a symptom of global positions and, at the same time, we discover how global realities affect the local context.[ES] Esta comunicación presenta y analiza un proyecto artístico llevado a cabo por ambas autoras durante una estancia en Yucatán, México en 2016.El proyecto, titulado : “Retrato en 25. Cartografiando memorias entre Tunkás e Izamal” se mueve por la necesidad de conocer y explorar diferentes lugares a través de la experiencia personal, descubrir las raíces de lo micropolítico y analizar la implicación del artista como agente externo en un contexto local ‘desconocido’. A través de este trabajo encontramos la posibilidad de participar en un contexto diferente, interpretando los códigos que construyen la memoria, la identidad cultural y los espacios comunes.Se puso en marcha mediante estrategias de las ramas antropológica y etnográfica, que desde una perspectiva diletante y liviana ofrecen el terreno de juegos adecuado para realizar entrevistas, trabajo de campo y recolección de objetos y documental.Estrategias que a la vez nos permiten desarrollar un trabajo plástico en el que la fotografía, el audiovisual, la acción y la edición son parte esencial para la interpretación y reinterpretación de los individuos y el contexto en el que habitamos. Recorremos el espacio físico y recolectamos objetos que rozan lo insignificante o desapercibido para ponerlos bajo otra óptica. En el transcurso de estas acciones se despierta el reconocimiento de cuestiones micropolíticas como síntoma de posiciones más globales y a la vez el descubrir cómo afectan las realidades globales a un contexto local.Tortosa Ibañez, L.; Vroom, M. (2017). Documentación y producción artística en la cultura Yucateca. Archivo de experiencias. En Glocal [codificar, mediar, transformar, vivir] III Congreso Internacional de Investigación en Artes Visuales. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 688-692. https://doi.org/10.4995/ANIAV.2017.4897OCS68869

Job satisfaction and motivation of health workers in public and private sectors: cross-sectional analysis from two Indian states

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Ensuring health worker job satisfaction and motivation are important if health workers are to be retained and effectively deliver health services in many developing countries, whether they work in the public or private sector. The objectives of the paper are to identify important aspects of health worker satisfaction and motivation in two Indian states working in public and private sectors.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Cross-sectional surveys of 1916 public and private sector health workers in Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, India, were conducted using a standardized instrument to identify health workers' satisfaction with key work factors related to motivation. Ratings were compared with how important health workers consider these factors.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>There was high variability in the ratings for areas of satisfaction and motivation across the different practice settings, but there were also commonalities. Four groups of factors were identified, with those relating to job content and work environment viewed as the most important characteristics of the ideal job, and rated higher than a good income. In both states, public sector health workers rated "good employment benefits" as significantly more important than private sector workers, as well as a "superior who recognizes work". There were large differences in whether these factors were considered present on the job, particularly between public and private sector health workers in Uttar Pradesh, where the public sector fared consistently lower (<it>P </it>< 0.01). Discordance between what motivational factors health workers considered important and their perceptions of actual presence of these factors were also highest in Uttar Pradesh in the public sector, where all 17 items had greater discordance for public sector workers than for workers in the private sector (<it>P </it>< 0.001).</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>There are common areas of health worker motivation that should be considered by managers and policy makers, particularly the importance of non-financial motivators such as working environment and skill development opportunities. But managers also need to focus on the importance of locally assessing conditions and managing incentives to ensure health workers are motivated in their work.</p

NYC Historic Houses

A project combining historic research, textual analysis, and geographic information system analysis to provide a more comprehensive understanding of New York City’s history through the lens of historic house

Historic House Location Data

Location data for NYC historic houses and data on their associated locations