Deborah Raji – a prominent Nigerian-Canadian computer scientist – recently took to Twitter to push back against increasingly testy discussions around algorithmic … More
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new DSS paper in Int. J. of Research & Method in Education
We are very pleased to announce the publication of a key methods paper from the DSS project – an overview … More
“Those who control the questions shape the answers” (Floridi)
Luciano Floridi offers some interesting thoughts on the changing nature of power in an age of information. As he puts … More
new DSS article in Research In Education
Student attendance is a basic data-point in the daily operations of every school … so what does school use of attendance data tell us about the realities of the ‘datafication’ of education?
‘We know our customers’
During our research we are always trying to explore the reasons, motivations and rationales that lie behind why schools are … More
new DSS article in Oxford Review of Education
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new paper from our empirical work in the journal Oxford Review … More
Why we need to talk more about data (in education)
Some of the main findings emerging from our research relate to the relatively limited ways in which our schools are engaging … More
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
The surprising non-appearance of the datafied school? (video presentation)
Neil Selwyn and Luci Pangrazio present a short 15 minute talk on emerging findings from the ‘Data Smart Schools’ project. This is part of the ‘Why Talk About Data (In Education)?’ symposium run by Sheffield Hallam University.
Maintenance matters
Our research is certainly showing the importance of schools’ data infrastructures, and the ongoing maintenance and repair work that is … More
