Using a Mobile App to Teach Students about Data Science

Thursday, November 02, 2017 | 1:30PM–2:20PM ET | Meeting Room 108B, 100 Level
Session Type: Breakout Session
Delivery Format: Interactive Presentation
Students need to learn how to work with data. Using a mobile app, data science collection exercises can be blended into courses. These activities teach students to reason with, and think critically about, the data that they collect. Data science skills prepares students for good citizenship in the 21st century.

Outcomes: Understand how to blend data science activities into courses using a mobile data science app * Learn what is available in the open-source mobile data science exploration portal * Offer information to instructional designers and faculty about new mobile learning tools

Presenters

  • Rose Rocchio

    Director of Mobile Web Research and Accessibility, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)