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Raise Your Voice for Human Rights! Using Data Scrapping for Social Justice

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Location: La Nouvelle Ballroom, Table 17
Experience live: All-Access Package

Participate and share : Poster

Claudia Franco  
María Ximena González Padilla  
Isabel Moreno Carstens  

How do we raise our voice against injustice if there's no knowledge of how can we help? Students research violations of human rights and institutions that might be helpful to aid and visualize this in real time through an interactive map fed by data scrapping from Twitter.

Audience: Principals/head teachers, Teachers, Technology coordinators/facilitators
Skill level: Beginner
Attendee devices: Devices useful
Attendee device specification: Smartphone: Android
Participant accounts, software and other materials: QR Lector
Topic: Storytelling/multimedia
Grade level: 9-12
Subject area: Social studies
ISTE Standards: For Students:
Knowledge Constructor
  • Students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.
Computational Thinker
  • Students collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them, and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.
Creative Communicator
  • Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
Additional detail: Student presentation

Proposal summary

Purpose & objective

One of the main objectives of this project is to develop social justice awareness and to develop a lesson plan that includes XXI century skills in social studies.
1. To sensitize the students using a case analysis methodology based on their country real issues.
2. Develop research and critical thinking skills
3. Become aware of local and regional ONGs
4. Using social media as a tool for research through computer science tools such as data scrapping with Python and Arduino wifi module

Follow an innovative research methodology where the outcome is a real life data analysis and physical prototypes to help make thinking visible.
1. Traditional research
2.Case Studies
3. ONG scouting
4. Media design of research
5. Twitter Data Scrapping
6. Data to wifi module
7. Physical Computing Map (circuits and electronics)

Supporting research

-https://www.un.org/es/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
-https://www.amnesty.org/es/
-https://www.reamm.org.mx/index.php/enlaces/instituciones-gubernamentales
-https://www.oxfam.org/es/violacion-de-derechos-humanos-en-mexico-6-personas-asesinadas-43-estudiantes-desaparecidos-y-20
-https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-scrape-more-information-from-tweets-on-twitter-44fd540b8a1f?gi=61e21223a11
-https://www.edutopia.org/blog/current-events-social-justice-teaching-jinnie-spiegler

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Presenters

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Claudia Franco, Instituto Alpes San Javier

Claudia works as a full time teacher imparting Spanish and Languages course in middle school at Alpes San Javier. She is an Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey graduate with a major in Communication Science. She has published opinion articles in Proyecto 10; a local digital newspaper, in topics around human rights.

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María Ximena González Padilla, Instituto Alpes San Javier
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Isabel Moreno Carstens, Instituto Alpes San Javier