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Georjeanna Wilson-Doenges
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Oct 15, 2026
Ep. 189: Storytelling with Data: How to Make Statistics Less Scary and More Relevant in Our World
9:36
In 1993, if I'd have walked into that statistics classroom, how would it have been different from if I walk into your classroom today?
9:43
I think it would be very similar, but me as a teacher, I feel like I've grown and gotten better at what I do.
9:59
But definitely technology has influenced it, but I still make students calculate means and standard deviations because I think it's important to understand what they mean.
10:15
What are they? How do we get them? Because I feel like when we use too much technology, It removes us from the source of the information, and it's harder to tell stories when you don't really know what you're talking about.
10:34
And I think a lot about AI, I don't wanna talk a whole bunch about AI, but AI can interpret data for sure, but the thing that it can't do is it doesn't tell an authentic story.
10:50
And I feel like that's why AI will never take my job because it will never fully be able to contextualize the information and to tell relevant stories to people who want to hear them in everyday words and everyday language.
7 MINS LATER
18:35
And so I'm thinking about when we're teaching a class and we've only got 14 weeks of semester and you have to get a certain amount of content in, what are the really key things that you try and pass on? Is it how to calculate it? Is it knowing what to calculate in the first place? Is it interpreting after or all of the