Data Science and AI Educators' Programme: Graduation, Session 1 (2023)

Data Science and AI Educators' Programme: Graduation, Session 1 === ###### tags: `graduation-session-1` `DS-AI-Educators'-Programme` :::info - **Call time and day**: Thursday 13 August 2023, 11:00 - 12:00 (GMT+1) - **Meeting host**: Ayesha - **Meeting facilitator**: Ayesha - **Zoom link**: https://turing-uk.zoom.us/j/96030727456?pwd=bGVkKy9HZEJWaUp6VXM2a2RwQUozQT09 - **Github repo**: [DS and AI Educators' Programme GitHub](https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/ds-ai-educators-programme) ::: **Call recording reminder:** Please note that this call will be recorded and live streamed to YouTube. Turn on your webcam if you don’t mind being in the video (or off if you do!). **Participation reminder:** [Code of conduct & community participation guidelines](https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/ds-ai-educators-programme/blob/main/code-of-conduct.md).If you experience or witness unacceptable behaviour, or have any other concerns, please report them by contacting the organisers - Ayesha, Mishka or Matt (training@turing.ac.uk). **Presentation reminder:** In preparation for the sessions, we ask that you kindly prepare a short, 3-minute presentation about your time on the Data Science and AI Educators’ Programme. Slides are optional. We have prepared a selection of prompts to help you cover some of the information that you might like to share with your peers: - _What is/are your highlight/s from the programme?_ - _How will you apply some of your learning(s) from the programme to your line of work?_ - _How do you intend to use the programme to impact your community?_ - _How can other participants from the programme collaborate with you/get to know you better once the programme has finished?_ :::success ## Roll call for the Data Science and AI Educators' Programme participants _Please note that we will use this order for your graduation presentations._ e.g. Name // Social Handles (twitter, GitHub etc) // What are you looking forward to after the graduation session? 1. 2. Dong (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dong-xia-59762516/). Applying what's learned in the programme to my own teaching and interacting with the community to keep updating my knowledge and practice. 3. Amina (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akh-amina/). I am exited to use gained knowldge and experince in the upcoming Fall semester, and share it further with my collegues. 4. Paul (LinkedIn: paul-clough-b974a84). I'm looking forward to going back over what we've learned and thinking about how I can apply this to the different job roles I have. 5. Cynthia Naydani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthia-naydani-30b9421b9/) 6. Edo Barbieri (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edoardobarbieri/, GitHub: https://github.com/EdoBarbieri). I am looking forward to continuously improving as an educator. 7. Eirini (GitHub: eirini-zormpa, Mastodon: eirini@scholar.social). I look forward to experimenting with what I've learned in the programme in my community :sparkles: 8. Pragya Paudyal (linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pragya-paudyal-5a38a874/) I intend to apply the pedagogical aspects of teaching, specifically Bloom's taxonomy, to improve my instructional strategies and ensure a more comprehensive understanding of concepts. 9. Azizul (linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azizul-azizan-5461704a/) Collaborations with Alan Turing & participants. Reflection Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jnPVMfpUPzHxAzY8Nakxr3UDP8kAdlkS8iKBkvLwyac/edit?usp=sharing 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. ::: ## Programme reflections :film_projector: Please keep your presentation to 3 minutes maximum :alarm_clock: and add your information in the following format: --- ### 2. Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics // Royal Veterinary College // Dong Xia - **Links/resources that you'd like to share with others.** - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dong-xia-59762516/ - - Notes: - Ethics highlighted awareness - Resources and things to use in own teaching practice - Interdisciplinary teaching session was helpful as relates to own practice - will help to modify practice - Mentoring groups have been useful as pairings have been interdisciplinary, so useful - **How can others help you as you move forward in your role as an educator?** - Keep in touch and learn the latest development of teaching practice and technics... - - - **Questions and comments from the audience.** - ... - - --- ### 3. Teaching Assistant // Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy // Amina Akhmetbekova - **Links/resources that you'd like to share with others.** - Sentient Syllabus Project: http://sentientsyllabus.org/ - - Notes: ![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/BJXx1Upth.png) - Adapting syllabus to include gamifyied sessions/creating games - Run an ethical use of AI workshop, already approved by the department - **How can others help you as you move forward in your role as an educator?** - Keeping in touch with others would be helpful, and it would also be great to have collaboration with public policy academia. - - - **Questions and comments from the audience.** - What tool did you use to make the slides? :grinning_face_with_star_eyes: - - --- ### 4. Academic and Head of Data Science and AI // University of Sheffield and TPXimpact // Paul Clough - **Links/resources that you'd like to share with others.** - TPXimpact: https://www.tpximpact.com/ - New course we're developing in the Information School: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/2024/data-science-bsc - LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/paul-clough-b974a84 - Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=YF03sCUAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate - Notes: - Topics around ethics and embedding data science across disciplines had some useful guidance - Breakout rooms were good to meet lots of people from different backgrounds - Some time digesting and reflecting on the content. - New undergrad programme at Sheffield: learnings useful here - Topics useful in engaging with non-academic stakeholders e.g. government - - **How can others help you as you move forward in your role as an educator?** - It would be great to be able to keep in touch with people, e.g. via LinkedIn. - Would also be great to learn more from people as they develop effective ways of teaching. - - **Questions and comments from the audience.** - ... - - --- ### 5. Cynthia Naydani // Teaching Fellow & Course Developer @ GAAFS/UoE - **Links/resources that you'd like to share with others.** - LI https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthia-naydani-30b9421b9/ - - Notes: - ...Really liked Pedagogy sessions (making learning accessible, equitable, inclusive) and making learning memorable (learn through unexpected outcomes) - Mentor groups were excellent - cohort had diverse backgrounds and experiences, really nice facilitation from Maarya - ...Emphasise not just the DS skills themselves, but the self-confidence and motivation to persevere. Cultivate the attitude that leads to success rather than a focus on the end-goal - - **How can others help you as you move forward in your role as an educator?** - - Interested in helping colleagues deal with AI in education/assessment - thoughts welcome! - - **Questions and comments from the audience.** - ... - - --- ### 6. Tutor // Glasgow International College // Edo Barbieri - **Links/resources that you'd like to share with others.** - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edoardobarbieri/ - GitHub: https://github.com/EdoBarbieri - Notes: - As someone who has just been starting with teaching, it has been very formative to listen to other people's experiences and thoughts- plus, the abundance of case studies during the sessions has been very helpful and inspiring. - Mentoring group was useful to connect with similar background-ed people, as well as connect with others from different disciplines - Useful tools provided e.g gamification ideas - Case studies/practical applications were useful to see in the cohort calls as they provide some kind of inspiration - - **How can others help you as you move forward in your role as an educator?** - ... - - - **Questions and comments from the audience.** - ... - - --- ### 7. Community Manager Open Collaboration // The Alan Turing Institute // Eirini Zormpa - **Links/resources that you'd like to share with others.** - Work GitHub: https://github.com/aim-rsf/training - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eirini-zormpa-207335119/ - Mastodon: https://scholar.social/@eirini - Notes: - Mentoring groups were a highlight - Ethics sessions were helpful in developing some of Eirini's training sessions (above) - - **How can others help you as you move forward in your role as an educator?** - I'd love to stay in touch with people! I loved all the resources people have been sharing in the chat during the calls and it'd be wonderful to be able to tap into that communal knowledge in future :tulip: - **Questions and comments from the audience.** - How could someone join Slack or collaboration cafes? - Information here: https://the-turing-way.start.page/ - --- ### 8. Lecturing in Machine Learning and Embedded System Research in ML/DL and AI Principles Literacy Policy// University Teknologi Malaysia // Azizul Azizan - **Links/resources that you'd like to share with others.** - [...](https://www.linkedin.com/in/azizul-azizan-5461704a/) - The reflection slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jnPVMfpUPzHxAzY8Nakxr3UDP8kAdlkS8iKBkvLwyac/edit?usp=sharing - Notes: ![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/BJz04UTKn.png) - Breakout sessions good for exchanging experience and perspectives, as well as mentoring sessions - Diverse resources e.g. model cards - AI ethics and online tools eg HackMD - Making learning memorable was a great session - Using live coding - Working in policy - **How can others help you as you move forward in your role as an educator?** - ... - - - **Questions and comments from the audience.** - ... - - --- ### 9. Data Science Lecturer // Data Science Campus, Office of National Statistics // Pragya Paudyal - **Links/resources that you'd like to share with others.** - [...](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pragya-paudyal-5a38a874/) - - Notes: - Learning new techniques - Thinking about certain topics e.g ethics - Thinking about accessibility - Awareness of existing biases and how to introduce new topics, awareness of learners - Collaborating with other public sector departments on Ethics - Sharing resources within the team - **How can others help you as you move forward in your role as an educator?** - ... - - - **Questions and comments from the audience.** - ... - - --- ### 10. Trainer // Institute // Siti Farah Norbaini Mohamad - **Links/resources that you'd like to share with others.** - - - Notes: - Mentoring groups were useful to meet new people - New ideas on how to teach and make it more interesting. Impactful speakers sharing good practice - Hopes to teach in a more 'fun' way, especially as Malaysia is at the beginning of teaching in DS and AI - **How can others help you as you move forward in your role as an educator?** - ... - - - **Questions and comments from the audience.** - ... - - ## Wrap-up and closing remarks :speaking_head_in_silhouette: ![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HksSPTX52.png)