Introduction The idea of ‘design justice’ has become a regular feature of socially-minded discussions of technology development. In practical terms,…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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