Most schools have a few ‘big ticket’ data points – a particular indicator, score or ranking which looms large in…
School Data Analyst: a job description for the datafied school
[advertised job during the first month of our research] Data Analyst Full-time, ongoing position, commencing January 2019 Use your expertise…
From determinism to chance – notes on Hacking (1990)
Amidst the many anxieties that surround datafication is the recurring question of how numbers and statistics have become cemented throughout all…
What is data interoperability and why is it important in education?
The use and usefulness of data depends upon how easily it can be shared across devices and digital systems. While…
We haven’t seen your face around here before …
We enter into the foyer of the main school building. This space has low ceilings with various school paraphernalia on…
Hit 4.1 and you’re flagging ‘Purple’
[note: this is a ‘composite account’ of similar practices encountered across three different educational institutions. By combining the stories, this…
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…
