Data Literacy Workshop Programme

The timings are provisional and will depend on the number of accepted submissions. The workshop is meant to take a full day of activities. All times are within the British Summer Time (BST) timezone.

Date: 22 June 2021

Organised by the University of Southampton

Delivered online via Zoom. Please visit https://websci21.webscience.org/workshops/ to join this workshop.

Time Activity
9:00 - 09:15 Introduction and Opening talk - Manuel León & Johanna Walker
9:15 - 10:00 Round table: Data Literacy projects in Europe: Why does Europe care so much? - Davide Taibi, Laima Urbisiene, Ugljesa Marjanovic, Rob Brennan, Johanna Walker (moderator)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 Paper session 1 - Data Literacy and Education
  • DALIDA: Data Literacy Discussion Workshops for Adults - Christophe DeBruyne et al
  • AI in My Life: AI, Ethics & Privacy Workshops for 15-16-Year- Olds - Malika Bendachache et al
  • Engaging Students in Data Literacy: Lessons Learned From Data Intensive Classrooms - Thilanka Munasinghe & Amy Svirsky
  • 11:30 - 12:00 Data Literacy and Data Journalism - Andrea Nelson Mauro and professor Sergio Splendore
    12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break
    13:00 - 14:15 Tutorial: Using Design Thinking to develop Data Literacy Training - Tim Scholze
    14:15 - 14:30 Coffee break
    14:30 - 15:30 Paper session 2 - Citizenship and Data Literacy
  • Teaching Data Journalism in a World of Tool and Tech Overload - Rahul Bhargava & Catherine D’Ignazio
  • Data literacy depends on transparency: Explaining and understanding data processing - Thomas McNamara & Paula Mahoney
  • Defining data literacy communities by their objectives - Ahmed Fahmy, Johanna Walker & Manuel Leon
  • 15:30 - 15:45 Closing remarks