Discussion

How To Use These Prompts

Use these prompts for breakout activities, quick pair work, or end-of-session reflection. They focus on the data-methods half of the Digital Skills pathway.

For a five-minute room activity, choose one question: spend one minute reflecting, two minutes comparing examples with a partner, one minute writing a shared answer, and one minute hearing two pairs report back. Keep one decision, one supporting check, and one unresolved question. Use the fictional practice example if you do not have a suitable public example.

Collecting the Right Data

Use alongside Collecting the Right Data.

  1. Which data sources in your work feel trustworthy, and why?
  2. Which variables are genuinely needed for your current question?
  3. Where could collection choices introduce bias?
  4. What would make your data source easier for someone else to understand?

Organising and Exploring Data

Use alongside Organising and Exploring Data.

  1. Where do errors or inconsistencies most often enter your data?
  2. What makes a spreadsheet easy or hard to analyse?
  3. Which checks would you run before trusting a summary?
  4. How would you explain the difference between clean enough and perfect?

Making Sense of Data

Use alongside Making Sense of Data.

  1. What chart, dashboard, or statistic have you seen misinterpreted?
  2. Which context would change how someone reads your current findings?
  3. What visual design choice most often misleads people?
  4. What would you need to know before acting on a chart?

Insight to Impact

Use alongside Insight to Impact.

  1. What makes an insight actionable rather than merely interesting?
  2. Who needs to hear your findings, and what would each audience need emphasised?
  3. What feedback would tell you whether an insight had made a difference?
  4. When should a finding lead to a new question rather than a final recommendation?

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