MnLC2025 - Data Conversations by Shreepriya Dogra

Our prompts!

dogra013_ — 2025-08-04 17:38:02 UTC

Let’s reflect together:

Do your students/colleagues think about how data is generated, collected, or used?
What’s one way you’ve helped (or want to help) explore one or all of the above ideas?
What’s one barrier you’ve encountered when trying to bring these conversations into your teaching/work?

2025-08-07 18:33:15 UTC

My nursing students have to think about how studies are designed and data is collected, but they are beginners at understanding how that data can then be used.

2025-08-07 18:34:23 UTC

Barrier is that digital data collection is considered something “normal” and nothing can be done about it without going into technical details.

2025-08-07 18:34:24 UTC

In a lab course, students sometimes see data as objective and infallible instead of acknowledging the variation and biases

Yes, we use data to drive many of our processes.

2025-08-07 18:34:28 UTC

Bias...we should try to use more blind data.

Yes, we think about it and discuss often. Leveraging data for practice is challenging, especially when we don't have adequate resources.

2025-08-07 18:35:05 UTC

Barriers: lack of resources to support access to data

2025-08-07 18:35:06 UTC

Students are so immersed in data that it feels normal to them to share a lot about themselves, without thinking about where it goes/how it's used

2025-08-07 18:35:15 UTC

We have started asking questions about how data is collected and why?

eddyngeh — 2025-08-07 18:39:26 UTC

We get some people ask why we ask for their phone number and home address.

We are required to collect data (we stopped and haven't asked for social security numbers for 8-13 years now and fills asking for it has been deleted) from library users so they can use our services and get updated on items they want or need to return.