Event 

Protecting your students – the hidden journey of data and its use by big tech

Wednesday 21 May, 2025 – Wednesday 21 May, 2025
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Online

About this webinar

In this webinar we'll explore the hidden journey of data and the uses to which it is put by big tech. We'll consider surveillance capitalism and how personal data is used in ways that your students won't be aware of.

Using a critical pedagogical approach, we'll discuss opportunities for dialogue and creative practice that you can use to connect your learners/users with their data in a critical manner.

The aim is to improve students’ data literacy through increasing awareness of invisible data and market mechanisms that are responsible for a plethora of social injustices. 

Webinar aims

  • Build your capacity as a teacher to more effectively foster data literacy in your teaching. 
  • Provide different approaches to uncovering the hidden data journey. 
  • Explore invisible mechanisms of data injustice.

Key takeaways

  • Greater capacity to design hands-on activities related to data literacy for your students
  • Broader and critical understanding of data and its uses
  • Raised awareness of how surveillance capitalism is embedded in much of the things we do online

About the speaker

Dr Caroline Kuhn is an experienced secondary teacher who moved to HE after becoming fascinated by research.

She is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Education and her interest is on issues of technology and social justice.

She looks into data justice and technology integration in a resource constraint context, and how people’s agency is the key ingredient for any technology intervention to work.

She writes about alternative ways to integrate technology, data justice and critical approaches to technology more generally.

About this series

BSUEd Insights is a monthly CPD series for education practitioners on a range of topics.