THREE WEEKS UNTIL CONFERENCE!

Thanks so much for registering for the 4T Data Literacy conference on Wednesday, July 11, and Thursday, July 12, 2018! We're just shy of three weeks away!

The 4TDL is a satellite conference of the 4T Virtual Conference on Educational Technology and a sister conference to the 4T Digital Writing Conference.

If you're receiving this newsletter from a friend, please join us. You can REGISTER HERE!

With eight hourlong webinars spread over two days, we're excited about what's on offer:

WEDNESDAY, JULY 11

12:00 - 1:00pm Learning Data Science at the Library: Lesson Plans on Data Literacy Skills

1:15 - 2:15pm All About You, Up For Sale: How Data Brokers Like Cambridge Analytica Construct Consumer Identities

2:45 - 3:45pm Maps, Graphs, and More Oh My!: Reading and Evaluating Data Visualizations
4:00 - 5:00pm Exploring Big Issues with Data in Society: Using Case Studies with Students

THURSDAY, JULY 12

12:00 - 1:00pm Building Data Literacy Among Students Using the ARDA’s Free Online Resources

1:15 - 2:15pm Practical obscurity: My right to fail versus your right to know

2:45 - 3:45pm Fantastic Statistics and How to Use Them: Data for School Newspaper Reporting

4:00 - 5:00pm Helping Students Ask Better Questions About Data

**All presentations times are in the Eastern time zone.

For details, check our conference website.

We offer two ways of validating attendance for educators. Check out the one that applies to you:

• Free continuing education credits for Michigan K-12 educators: As a state university, we are pleased to be able to offer 4-8 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 four sessions to qualify. In each webinar, we'll share details for how you can participate. Be aware that we must receive all digital documentation by 11:59pm on Friday, July 13 -- we go on vacation after that and it will be too late!
  
  
• 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. Be aware that we must receive all digital documentation by 11:59pm on Friday, July 13 -- we go on vacation after that and it will be too late! 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.).

We've archived our 2016 and 2017 conference presentations here.

And consider purchasing or downloading a free copy of Data Literacy in the Real World: Conversations and Case Studies for professional development materials related to each webinar, as well as over 45 case studies to help your colleagues, your students, and even your family consider how data impacts their everyday lives.

We understand that some of you who registered for the 2016 conference are receiving spam emails from someone masquerading as us, using the group email address we set up for that event. We apologize for the inconvenience and have deleted that group email address.

You can reach our University of Michigan team at 4t.data@gmail.com .

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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 ICPSR and made possible in part by the Institute of​ Museum and Library Services RE-00-15-0113-15.

Register here!