An important (but often overlooked) feature of how schools ‘do’ data is the production and consumption of data visualisations. In…
The ‘aesthetic practices’ of data processing and presentation
An important element of the ‘use’ of data in schools are the various forms of data work behind the packaging,…
What are the acceptable limits of school data? The case of the Florida ‘school safety’ database
Recent reporting by Education Week’s Benjamin Herold gives a glimpse of the direction that school datafication is travelling … and…
‘Good Enough’ Data: the benefits of data activism within school communities
One of our project ambitions is supporting teachers, students and parents to generate their own data as a complement (or…
Developing people’s ‘Data Imaginations’
Enhancing the use of digital data within schools clearly involves exploring how everybody within a school (staff and students) might improve…
Datafication – the limits of looking to policy ‘solutions’ (notes on Simanowski 2016)
Roberto Simanowski makes a set of useful points about the limitations of any policy responses to the current excesses of…
Digital data is ‘the mess of human nature’ … ‘we might as well have fun with it’
Perhaps one of the most fruitful ways to think otherwise about data in school is to not take data too…
