The Stories We Share

Integrating the Humanities and Sciences

Abstract

Track: Course Design

In a world that is ever-increasingly prioritizing the education, work, and advancements of data science, how can we look to and draw upon skills, strategies, and principles commonly found within the humanities classroom to better teach students across the disciplines? In effort to answer this question, this presentation will provide an overview of the pedagogical model utilized by NC State University’s Data Science and AI Academy (DSA): ADAPT, the All-campus Data Science and AI Project-based Teaching and learning model. Moreover, this presentation will explore how the ADAPT model and its student-centeredness and its prioritization on project-based learning reinforces humanistic teaching and learning into data-science classrooms. This will be illustrated by exploring a DSA course at NC State: “Storytelling with Data and AI: The Story of Self.”