 Well, good morning everybody. Good afternoon. I should say actually it's very much morning here for me and I am in brave new world of not really dealing with mornings. So this is an adaptation. It's actually really exciting to get up and put on clothing and makeup. I'm Bonnie Stewart. I am at the University of Windsor which is in Canada, although just across the border with Detroit and my colleague Juliana. Hi, hello from Barcelona. I work at the Universitat de Catalunya which actually is open University of Catalonia in Spain. And we have been looking at the idea of data and how our society is becoming increasingly but we wanted to just open by also sort of encouraging you to use one of the features of Blackboard Collaborate which is that this is a live slide so if you've ever done this before you actually have the capacity to mark on this slide to contribute and so I'm going to invite you to look at the panel in front of you and if you see the pencil icon up near the top or the large T typing icon are you able to contribute to the slide and say hello yes I see somebody writing on it. I would love it if folks could just pop in where are you today in real I like a sense of who I'm talking with. Bonnie let me just see if I can switch that on because because of the large number of attendees we're using a version of Blackboard where collaborators can only chat with us so the only way for us to make that possible is for us to make everyone a presenter which we definitely can it might just take a minute for us to do that with 70 people. Sorry we'll take a second we just feel free to put it I see people are already putting it in the chat and that's great too we just wanted a chance to have a sense of who's with us here today. Sorry about that. No that's totally okay we'll and we have one point later on where we're going to come back to the slide like this but we can we can use the chat or we can make the adaptations it's all good we're we're here to do this together. Thank you this is really cool same all kinds of places. Thank you from all around the world. From all around. Jim in Detroit waving across the river. Yes but you are confined Bonnie so exactly you go ahead and take it forward okay okay okay so let's go sorry for while the people is still participating just two words to introduce the problem we are facing. So we'll talk to this why we should care about the defecation and we could sound far from the COVID-19 and all of our current concern how digitalization education in a hurry or let's say a hurricane could be this day the the the actual truth is that the problem of defecation is there more than ever for the digital platforms we live by are collecting more and more data and the predictive models could be fed at infinity. So this is the problem that in a society you see on the right side a number of important contributions in over this problem and on the left side just a personal experience it happened to me that by error I scanned a picture of my nephew containing I rather some some I mean revolutionary idols and Google then software me a number of products that politically corrected my vision and why was that situation because the algorithm algorithms were programmed by somebody with a cultural and geopolitical identity coming from somewhere and training over what is his or her vision of red and revolutionary so this is the problem that the picking data in an enthusiastic way could like hinder us to think about the problem of defecation and the several biases embedded in using data nicely and particularly to enact or support behaviors consumers behaviors so this arrives to education education could not escape to this panorama we see two pictures which are really eloquent in in one the first one about the internet of toys and the second one about facial tracking and biometric data associated to learners motivations commission expression boredom or whatever and and all these platforms the internet of things and the apps we use we live by collect data and the the questions that are rising amongst us is a complex problem like learning be represented by by this data so it looks that we as educators need to prepare ourselves for these situations and and to make the right choices not only selecting nice technologies as we used to do 10 years ago but also to reflect about the data we are tracking and collecting and and what is going to be done with this data so in a research by Bonnie and me we analyzed 386 articles and and we kept a screen uh 132 and we discovered that that there is little focus as you can see in this cloud this uh keyword map uh most uh meaning making around data is connected to teachers data management uh using data opportunity the technologies and technicalities of using data and the needed interest is even in the research data management uh processes so uh the problem here is uh how are we defining uh being data liter literate and and and the fact that we need several perspectives about this and and introducing a critical perspective so I feel that Bonnie will lead us to reflect much more about this uh in an uh active session so uh the floor to Bonnie thank you Bonnie okay well here we go what we would like is your help in taking a look at how um how we can look at educators data literacies and so I'm in the process of attempting to screen share and I just need to know um if everyone can see that we're going to ask you if you would be willing to take a device hopefully you have a device or to go to a new window on your laptop and go to www.menti.com and use the code 852094 simply to do a very small informal survey for us that would just be part of a pilot where we can get a sense of what educators data literacies are and we recognize that we're not going to have a lot of um identifying data on the folks here and um but and and Mentimeter itself does not do a great deal of tracking as a platform but we would encourage invite you if you're willing to go ahead and join Menti and then we will begin to look at a couple of questions about data literacies one of the things we wanted to say is that in this kind of small survey of your own data practices there is no right answer if you find yourself going no don't do that no don't know that that's a hundred percent okay that actually helps us have a sense of kind of the range of what people do and what people know and we recognize that folks here at OER are likely to have different data literacies and practices than folks we might gather in a different setting um Juliana I can only see the Menti screen right now so can you just let me know are we ready to move forward uh okay you have to you have to move they uh because you're sharing you have to move Menti yeah well I'm gonna move it I just want is there anything and I can't see the chat so are our folks ready yes I'm doing yes sure super thank you okay and I see we have quite a few folks in thank you very very much folks and if you just want to watch along that is absolutely great um question number one I use digital platforms in my life and work what we're all here uh know sometimes a lot more lately or for teaching and learning on a regular basis particularly before this so if that's a relatively new thing for you uh then I would go with the third option a lot more lately and if that's always been part of your practice then maybe the fourth option and again all options are 100% valid just let me the answers come in fair enough there are any no's in this group that makes sense and everyone should be able to see these responses as as they come in wonderful thank you I'm gonna move us forward um so just 10 more seconds to put in a response if you wish to this one I know what the following mean or do and this is a set of sliders so if you have a vague sense of what the term means you can keep it somewhere towards the disagree side if you have a a vague sense that you're pretty solid on that move towards the agree side and if you have a strong feeling on either way you go ahead and put yourself where you want we will then maybe put open this up so that everybody leaves knowing what these are interesting now we get to the awkward place where if I were in a room with all of you the intent would be to call on folks and say okay so who wants to take data money um does anybody want to grab the mic and tell us what they think data mining is I can't see anyone's if you want to raise your hand maybe um so that Bonnie can see you if anybody wants to jump in we can give you the mic just raise your hand and we can do that oh Juliana can let me know if anybody does raise their hand because if I move back to the blackboard window then I have then that's the only screen that you'll see um I'm actually happy to take these and have somebody jump in and correct me I am 100 perfectly okay I think with being partly wrong on on the record um I think of data mining is the fact that most of the platforms that we use for education and most of the digital platforms that we use generally are extractive in their nature and so they are always um both passively and actively collecting data on our clicks our habits our practices all of those things does anybody want to take that a little further than I did or are we okay to move on there there's a lot more to and I'm sure that there is probably somebody here whose specialty this is which is why I'm always wary of treading on toes but data mining the fact that everything we're using is is gathering data on us biometric data I have a story about biometric data about three years ago I got a fit bit I'm not a terribly active person but the fit bit collects biometric data on me in the sense of how much do I sleep how many steps do I take a day it also of course is doing significant amount of data mining while it does that literally the week before everything went on lockdown my the last of my fit bit chargers um I smelled a burning smell while I was charging my fit bit and realized that the it had um shorted out and um was starting to burn and so I put that in the garbage and thought to myself because we're trying in my house not to buy anything from Amazon um this year uh so we I thought oh well I'll get to a store and get myself a new fit bit charger um guess what I don't have a fit bit charger I have no idea if I'm taking any steps if I'm sleeping or any of those things and frankly it's been kind of freeing um TOS anybody got that and be thrown in the chat huliana yeah so we've got autumn who's raised their hand and I've given her the mic terms of service terms of service yay now in the chat and I won't be able to see if a huliana will how many people here have actually ever read the entire terms of service for anything do we have a resounding amount of yes this if if so I'm very impressed I can't see huliana can you tell me what you're seeing because I can't see it uh there is an amazing uh a cascade of no no for some things uh okay once no no no fan martin wella actually uh I gave up your job roberts and thank you so the funny thing about terms of service this past year I did a project which I'll be talking about tomorrow around the same time with Dave Cormier and Nick Baker from the University of Windsor and we looked at terms of service for a variety about 20 25 different ed tech tools so that um we could do short reviews on them for a project called the open page and we discovered that they're not really meant to be read um trying to teach bachelor of education students how to read them was like trying to teach law and it they're intentionally long and obfuscating right to be forgotten I'll take that one quickly but my understanding is that it is a conversation around um whether particularly people online and in education particularly students have the right to exist in spaces without leaving permanent traces that can follow them around for for their lives um learning analytics the gdpr appeared and the people are saying that's actually something done not to work right to be forgotten funny right some comments lots of comments lots of impressions and comments great and learning analytics there are analytics in just about any platform that you use one of the I was I was blogging 10 years ago when google analytics started to become popular and suddenly you could see what is the reach of your post how many people and where are they and learning analytics gives us the same kind of engagement information on spaces that we're teaching in um particularly if they're in lms um but then there is also the whole data mining data cation what do we do with that information who owns it question um that is important for us as educators to be thinking about and the last one that I threw in there was amazon ring because that's been a particular kind of focus of some of my research work this year um I don't know how far that has permeated in the uk or continental europe but here in north america it's a big hit and my own mayor here in windsor ontario wants to be the first canadian mayor to attach our own police system or at least did before the pandemic to amazon ring which is not just it's a video doorbell but it's also a video doorbell attached to a social media system by which if you collect video from your front porch of a suspicious person and I use that term very much in scare quotes um walking in front of your house uh then you can immediately send that to the police if if they're interested in receiving it without them having to go through the um warrant process that currently exists around surveillance video I did see something funny since we all got kind of locked down that um you know please don't please don't share a video of that suspicious person it's just your neighbor but without their hair extensions or without without the makeup on that you're accustomed to seeing them in but realistically that's always been the problem with something like surveillance video is that actually the people that we tend to think are suspicious is often a very racialized and biased perspective on society and the people that we're calling suspicious are often our neighbors nonetheless um so those are just some a quick survey of that piece the next time sorry lots of interactions about learning analytics and now uh coming out yes uh Javier also adding something about learning analytics and something about the amazon ring that it looks that our audience is really concerned about learning analytics uh big issue um great I own the following smart devices and this is just for you if you do own anything that you think of as smart uh throw it in here please um I'm really curious if anyone has like the smart fridge uh I I don't um or the smart firms that but uh sometimes again in this new time when I'm not going out grocery shopping I'm pretty aware of what's in and not in my fridge but that's new for me okay google home smart what the phones amazon echo Alexa someone has a ring smart meter tablet but the kid stole isn't that the truth smart weighing scales oh I wouldn't want that right now oh my no no cookies have become a food group in my um in my home and in my life we'll take 30 more seconds if folks just want to add anything else in here this is really interesting I appreciate this because it's just helpful for us to get a sense of of what people have invested in or are using fire stick a bit okay great I'm going to move us on I want to work with a new digital platform I do the following regarding data nothing somebody will help me figure it out or a check with my institution I read guidelines or I google the to us terms of service and glance at them or I read the terms of service carefully and crowdsource in other words turn to my digital network any additional implications and I know a lot of us have may have had new platforms thrown at us just in the past couple of weeks I've been seeing a lot of concerns coming out around zoom and people who are being asked to use zoom but also realizing some of the data implications of zoom but to be fair and this this comes out the same as just about any room that I've seen often when we're told to you something yeah somebody will help us figure it out and that may be as far as we go coming up for five minutes Bonnie okay that's great and we'll take another 15 seconds here so a bond the chat is really rich of lots of interventions connecting the use of several platforms in education but concern about the data tracking and the way if this could be useful good uh it to some extent very few interventions convenience about most of the people this can be it's about the country the problems and and of course the civilians and activated platforms excellent the last question that I want to ask if folks could just throw in on the screen ed tech tools I've been trying out or using more due to COVID-19 include and if anybody has anything to throw in there that would be much much appreciated flip grid zoom fair enough I've it's been really interesting because my institution has Blackboard Collaborate which we're on right now but wow do we seem excited about using zoom in my faculty um Microsoft Teams Blackboard Collaborate Jitsie mumble yeah big blue button that's Canadian tool we've stayed away from the tools excellent okay I'm going to give folks 30 more seconds and then we're going to come back just so we can can wrap up thank you very very much for contributing to this folks it just it helps us get a sense what what Juliana and I would like to do is net from here design a survey for educators both within the open community and also within less digitally active communities to with an eye towards eventual faculty development around and professional development around data literacies and helping educators kind of make sense of what can and should we be looking at and how should we be supporting faculty to build their literacies around these data concerns with the tools that we use um so I'm going to stop sharing now and go back to the main screen and Juliana I'm just going to throw the the slides back on um if we get the chance it takes a second with collaborate and okay so really we just wanted to open it up um and I know that the discussion has already been happening in the chat but if folks happen to want to keep contributing to the chat or share or take the mic any other sense is beyond sort of faculty development PD or specifics for faculty development PD about how we can build educators data literacies and I'm reading uh so I think the concern is going very much Bonnie uh again uh learning analytics because uh it is becoming uh an overall concern the way that um there is uh there are companies developing products basing over the data track it over students and and the thing is that some of the people is convinced that this has to stop absolutely whereas uh in in other cases there there are contributions believing that educational research and joint advancement in for example um participatory designs engaging people uh could could have uh an impact that for this is for sure uh there are literacies to be developed uh to engage with this uh participatory developments and that makes sense I think one of the things that many of us are concerned about particularly at this moment when suddenly online is getting way more attention than it has before is who's waiting in the wings to monetize this to corporatize this to to profit off it and so we need to be particularly data literate at this moment because I think we're about to see a fairly significant um shift in that I think our time is up so we just want to say thank you Juliana and I are on uh Twitter if anybody wants to continue this conversation thank you so much for uh connecting with us today and um we're gonna pass it on so that the next team gets their opportunity that it was great to have all those comments and uh I'm really sad that all this reachness it's difficult I mean to get engaged and have a long conversation so we keep on going on on Twitter thank you very much for all of you here that's great thanks ever so much bros