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Season 3, Episode 4 - Teach & Learn

Teaching Data Literacy for a Data Driven World With Tom Andriola

What does it truly mean to be data-literate in today’s tech-centric world? And how can institutions help empower students as they step into a data-saturated future?

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Highlights

00:35

What it means to be truly data literate

03:57

Data as a scalable model

06:03

Empowering students through agency

11:30

Data, AI and the learning curve

15:20

How data informs lifelong learning

21:00

AI should be for every learner

23:40

Closing the digital divide on campus

25:30

ZotGPT

30:34

Equality in practice

31:25

Responsible AI use

34:58

Digital Squared, a podcast

38:45

Episode wrap

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 4 of Teach & Learn: A Podcast for Curious Educators, by D2L. Hosted by Dr. Cristi Ford and Dr. Emma Zone from the Academic Affairs team. The podcast features candid conversations with some of the sharpest minds in the K-20 education space. We discuss trending educational topics, teaching strategies and delve into the issues plaguing our schools and higher education institutions today.

We are living in an increasingly digital world where nearly everything we do generates data. This information can be used to come to profound and impactful decisions that create tremendous benefits—but only if we can interpret, understand and put the insights to use.  

The trouble is that although many of us are data-aware, we’re far from data-literate. And for the data-driven world of today, and the data-saturated world of the future, our next guest says that’s not good enough. Institutions have a responsibility to ensure all students develop data fluency, something that starts with closing digital divides. 

Vice Chancellor of Technology and Data and Chief Digital Officer at UC Irvine, Tom Andriola joins Dr. Cristi Ford on this episode of Teach & Learn.

 Together, they discuss:

  • what it means to be truly data-literate
  • why data is the currency of the future
  • how to institutional leaders, staff and faculty can boost their data-literacy 
  • the role of AI in data
  • closing the digital divide
  • UC Irvine’s school-wide LLM, ZotGPT

Speakers

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