Quantitative Literacy 10 b (20%)

I will use a quantitative perspective as the foundation to analyze deep and thoughtful judgments and create well-thought-out conclusions.

In my final project, I took the responses from the staff at MOBOT and formalized a conclusion out of the answers given.

Karmen’s questions with focus group reflected responses  

  • Another question we asked was, “For individuals who want to learn more about the history of enslavement in the gardens, how can we make that knowledge more accessible?”  “ I think it really is about harnessing our digital platforms at this point. because it is about making that accessible space, and it is cleaner and faster content. Producing a sign takes a lot of time. It goes through a bagillion hours of processing hours. You’re limited by 125 characters or something like that, and so you don’t really get the whole story. So I think finding ways to have accessible web portals to tell garden stories, having videos to allow content that produces in a different way to tell individual stories and connections, and then having. Access to deeper research papers and when you think about historical content or all of those kind of things, we want to get people interested in the topic and then give them all of it. But we can’t give them all of it all at once because they shut down.” – Morgan mallsmith Morgan Mallsmith emphasizes the importance of “harnessing our digital platforms” to make information accessible and engaging. She highlights the limitations of traditional methods like signage, due to restrictions such as text space and processing time. Mallsmith talks about “finding ways to have accessible web portals to tell garden stories.” videos or access to research papERs for a deeper understanding. The goal is to pique interest AND gradually provide more in-depth content to avoid overwhelming individuals.  

Information Literacy 5c (20%)

I can carefully include research, and I can demonstrate that I understand the ethical and legal restrictions on information use.

When creating the final video script and adding staff responses, I carefully listened to each response and picked out the best response to the question I asked. Then, I copied the exact transcription and quoted it, even fixing words that were not transcribed perfectly. I then quoted and cited each response.

Ethical Reasoning 3c (10%)

I can apply ethical concepts to questions/research questions and consider their full implications.

When conducting our focus group interviews, we asked twice if they were comfortable with us recording their answers and respected their wishes to keep things in or out of the final recording. We also included consent forms in the survey we sent out to MOBOT.

Civic Engagement 1a (30%)

I can work with others and still try to include things like their cultural values and ideals in our work. 

After presenting our survey questions at the gardens, we took feedback and information from our community partners, Sean Doherty and Michelle Bonner. We tweaked our survey to add their ideas to our survey to make it better for their understanding.

Skills for Lifelong Learning 7b (20%)

I can apply what I am learning in this class to other classes or my own experiences.

This semester, I was in STAT 107, where we were learning about the differences between qualitative and quantitive data. I spoke up and referenced what we had already talked about and went over in class with examples such as documents or letters in relation to qualitative data. In my head, I was thinking about when we went to MOBOT archives to look at and analyze the letters and receipts of Henry Shaw’s purchases.