Design-based research relating to technology and education tends to convey a relatively optimistic sense that the development and deployment of … More
Category: Research methods
Participatory Design – a checklist for researchers
Educational researchers are showing a growing interest in ‘Participatory Design’ (PD) and other collaborative ‘co-design’ approaches. Education researchers considering PD … More
Participatory Design approaches
Our research project is driven by a participatory design (PD) approaches to rethinking how schools might ‘do’ data. In this … More
Taking an ‘idiotic’ approach toward participatory design
An implicit feature of our participatory design workshops is that they are unlikely to ‘work’. In fact, whether the workshops … More
Taking our methods for a walk
Taking a lead from social anthropology and geography, it is clear that movement and mobility are key elements of the … More
‘Live methods’ and the study of the datafied school
The quickly developing nature of data-driven schooling invites us to think expansively and imaginatively about how we ‘do’ our research. … More
Data journeys
Digital data is not static. Rather, digital data is continuously on the move – passing rapidly through various sites of … More
Telling data stories
I have long been interested in the idea of ‘Trace Ethnography’ – the process of documenting digital traces from the … More
Schools and data – why it is helpful to think the worst!
A key aim of our research is to support teachers, students, school leaders and administrators to ‘think otherwise’ about how … More