One possible change for schools looking to make better use of their data is to establish some form of ‘data … More
Category: Background and context
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
Deb Raji on what ‘algorithmic bias’ is (… and what it is not)
Deborah Raji – a prominent Nigerian-Canadian computer scientist – recently took to Twitter to push back against increasingly testy discussions around algorithmic … 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
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