16 Feb // Data & Epistemic Donuts

I was really looking forward to this presentation because data is a topical and current subject and from the name it looked like the presenters would make it fun. The presentation was indeed very playful and they incorporated some fun and unexpected online activities like a word search, making us come up with haiku and limerick, providing inspiration for sparking up teaching sessions. The discussion descended into controversy about race, othering and how the data is gathered and represented. I’m not sure if I learned anything I didn’t already know about data. Sometimes I can see why students still prefer a lecture.