See You Thursday!
4T Data Literacy Conference | July 20-21, 2017
We're days away from the 4T Data Literacy Conference!
We're delighted that you'll be joining us next week for the 4T Data Literacy Conference. In this email, we'll share some tidbits to help you get ready. Then check your email the night before the conference -- we'll be sending you details about how to access sessions then. if you cannot join us live, we'll send you links to the archived sessions.
A couple of quick heads-up before then:
- Laptops or desktops recommended! We'll be switching over to the Zoom platform this year. While Zoom does have apps for Android and iPhone, some of the tools we will be using during the webinars are not mobile-friendly. For the best conference experience, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer to access the conference in lieu of a mobile device.
- Free continuing education credits for Michigan K-12 educators: As a state university, we are pleased to be able to offer 3-8 free SCECH credits to Michigan K-12 educators registered with the Michigan Department of Education's system. You must attend the entirety of at least three sessions to qualify. In each webinar, we'll share details for how you can participate. (Hint: you'll need a postage stamp this year!)
- Certificates of attendance for those who are NOT Michigan K-12 educators: We heard you last year that you wanted to be able to get proof of attendance, too. So this year, we're partnering with our parent conference, the 4T Virtual Conference on Educational Technology, to offer certificates of attendance for a $25 fee. We'll share the details during the live webinars. We appreciate your understanding that we will not accommodate other requests for verification (e.g., letters to administrators, attendees, school districts, or personnel files; completion of school, district, or state paperwork; etc.).
OUR BOOK, CREATING DATA LITERATE STUDENTS, NOW AVAILABLE AS FREE PDFs!
Book one, Creating Data Literate Students, is now available in PDF form here. Other formats are coming by Fall 2017! This title features chapters in which expert educators unpack nuanced strategies for understanding, discussing, and working with data, statistics, visualizations, infographics, and more at the high school level.
Book two, Data Literacy in the Real World: Conversations and Case Studies, will be available in multiple formats in Fall 2017. This book is designed as a professional learning reference with some components that can also be used directly with high school students. In Part I, we bring the experts to you, providing plug-and-play PD via high-quality archived webinars from the 2016 and 2017 4T Virtual Conference on Data along with discussion questions and hands-on activities. In Part II, we share over 40 case studies about data literacy in the real world. With issues drawn from the headlines, these case studies can serve either as PD with colleagues or as classroom conversations.
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The 4T Virtual Conference on Data Literacy is 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 of​ Museum and Library Services RE-00-15-0113-15.