Dear IASL Members,
Please see the below opportunity posted at the request of Lesley Farmer.
4T VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ON DATA LITERACY
THURSDAY, JULY 20 - FRIDAY, JULY 21,2017
Join us for a two-day exploration of data and statistics in the real world
of students. How do students encounter and use data beyond science and math
class? How do they make sense of Big Data, citizen science, managing their
personal data, and recognizing and contributing to ethical data use?
Featuring keynote presentations by Justin Schell of the University of
Michigan Library’s Shapiro Design Lab and Emerson College’s Catherine
d’Ignazio of the DataBasic.io<http://databasic.io> project. Registration is
free, and those registered with the Michigan Department of Education can
earn 3-8 free SCECH credits.
A satellite conference of the 4T Virtual Conference led by the U-M School
of Education, this conference is a project of the University of Michigan
School of Information and the U-M Library. This project was made possible
in part by the Institute ofMuseum and Library Services RE-00-15-0113-15.
To learn more, visit http://dataliteracy.si.umich.edu/conference
