Today is an event that is the first of its kind.
I was thrilled to have my first Gates Notes Deep Dive.
The new initiative where select groups of students
are nominated by their universities to meet with Bill
and participate in content briefings from subject matter experts.
Let’s welcome someone to the virtual stage
who is even more passionate about data than I am.
Bill, welcome.
Hi.
Education is something that I’m dying to learn how we can do better,
both as a country and in terms of who the Foundation is backing.
Our Foundation is trying to build data visualizations
that help people in the education sector
find best practices, to understand the trends.
It all began with this question
“What is the value of a college degree?”
Love that.
Guided Insight leverages said student-level, enrollment
and graduation data to get actionable insights into the field.
And it was thrilling to not only see a demonstration
of some of the early tools that are emerging
to help students, and teachers, and policy makers,
but also to engage in a dialogue with young people
who are going to take this forward.
Thank you! Good to be here.
They asked great questions.
Hi, everyone. Hi, Bill.
I have a broader question around big data
and technologies across the lifespan.
They’re the ones who are going to help us
design the tools in the right way
and use it to really improve not only overall educational levels,
but also the inequities in our educational system.
This is a new data tool we put together
over the course of the last year or so.
It can be used to help guide some actionable policy making
at the local policymaker level.
As you can see on the visualization,
this approach has been incredibly successful.
Young people like that have an aspiration to make it far better.
How do we dismantle many of our notions
of normative demographics?
What kinds of knowledge does the average teacher need
to value these big data sets?
I’m very excited that we’re able to back them
with the right tools to improve this country.
Welcome to our first ever Gates Notes Deep Dive.