Module 2: Digital Literacies and Critical Thinking Skills
Summary
In Module 2, we will discuss the role of digital literacy, critical thinking, and project management in text and data mining research. Through a project-based learning lens, we will situate text and data mining to identify and practice key critical thinking strategies that can help facilitate the inquiry and research workflow.
Module Objectives
- Identify critical thinking, digital literacy, and project management outcomes associated with text and data mining.
- Apply critical thinking strategies to think about ideation and interpretation of research questions and workflow output.
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Module Milestones
- Create a concept map for your topic. Be sure to branch out at least three layers.
- Select a concept on your outer most layer and perform some preliminary research to determine if the level of specificity of this area is actionable for research.
- Then, do the ‘Who, Why, How, When’ activity to develop your research question using that preliminary research and reflection.
- Evaluate your research question and write down what you anticipate will be needed for cleaning, tools, and close reading to plan and scope your project effectively.
Finished? Navigate to Module 3, to learn how to clean your OCR text with Lexos.