60-Minute Data Literacy Workshop Using the Junk Charts Trifecta Checkup

Business librarians have a role to play in supporting undergraduate students’ acquisition of data literacy skills. This lesson plan for a 60-minute workshop can help all librarians feel confident in implementing an interactive workshop that facilitates conversation about the use of data and data visualizations in business media. In small and large group discussions, students analyze the use of data and data visualizations in a business article, thereby growing their awareness of what questions to ask when consuming media that include data. Key principles from feminist pedagogy and critical business information literacy underlie the lesson plan