TWO WEEKS UNTIL CONFERENCE!

We're two weeks away from our July 11-12 conference and can't wait to see you! Each day begins at noon Eastern and runs until 5pm Eastern. Be sure to read on if you need SCECH (continuing education credits for Michigan educators) or a certificate of attendance!

With eight hour-long webinars spread over two days, we're excited about our presenters have to share!

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.

While you can use the GoToWebinar apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android for this conference, your experience will be enhanced if you use a laptop or Chromebook because it will be much easier to see the details in the datasets and graphics shared by our presenters.

Got questions? Check our FAQ page.

We've archived our 2016 and 2017 conference presentations here. We hope you'll use them back in your home districts or libraries to enhance your institution's ongoing conversations about data literacy. To help with that effort, you can download a free PDF of Data Literacy in the Real World: Conversations and Case Studies (or buy a print copy on Amazon) for professional development materials related to each 2016 & 2017 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'll explore the case studies in the 4pm webinar on July 11!

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. Click the link below for details.
  
  
• 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. Again 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. Click the link below for details. 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.).

Please be aware that we must receive all digital documentation by 11:59pm on Friday, July 13, 2018 -- we go on vacation after that and it will be too late!

For more information, visit our SCECH/certificate page.

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 Amy from our University of Michigan team at 4t.data@gmail.com .

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

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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.