‘Data for good’ vs. the Silicon Valleyification of everything

Silicon Valley logics run deep – meaning that even the most well-intentioned ‘tech for good’ project can unfold in directions … More

We need to talk about categories

One of the interesting topics to emerge from the 08.11.21 Stanford Arts event on ‘High-Tech Modernism’ was the topic of categories. First, Charlton … More

Data trusts: a practical way forward for schools and data?

One possible change for schools looking to make better use of their data is to establish some form of ‘data … More

Frank Pasquale on data and education

Frank Pasquale’s 2020 book ‘New laws of robotics: defending human expertise in the age of AI’ has some great discussions of the … More

Studying successful innovations until they fail

Design-based research relating to technology and education tends to convey a relatively optimistic sense that the development and deployment of … More

Good teaching is not a matter of data capture & prediction …

“Good teaching is a combination of art and skill and experience. I’m of the firm belief that no amount of … More

The possibilities of the post-platform school

In a recent blog-piece, the artist Ben Grosser raises a number of interesting arguments that prompt us to think about the … More

What is Critical Data Studies?

Most contemporary social science accounts of digital data are located within what has become known as ‘Critical Data Studies’. As … More

M/F/X … why converting gender into data is more complex than often presumed

We have written previously about the exclusionary nature of school data – using the example of non-binary students and the … More

Digital divination – seeing data-driven analytics as a matter of faith rather than a matter of fact?

At a recent workshop, Tim Neale raised the idea of approaching digitally-driven ‘prediction’ in terms of ‘divination’ During the course of his … More