Category: week 10
A few thoughts on the Twitter visualisation exercise. Click below to see the visualisation: My visualisation Sources: Gašević, D., Dawson, S. and Siemens, G. (2015), “Let’s not forget: learning analytics are about learning”, TechTrends, Vol. 59 No. 1, pp. 64–71 Williamson, B., Bayne, S., Shay, S. (2020), “The datafication of teaching in Higher Education: […]
Here below are 2 summaries of the 4 data and education questions that we were posed during the week. I have included a short answer of my own and a few tweets to give a flavour of the debate. Eynon, R. (2013). The rise of Big Data: what does it mean for education, technology, and […]
The idea that we are blinded by a ‘fog’ is to assume that there is a blind spot in our understanding as educators that can be ‘made clear’ by data. Such an assumption is itself a product of recent orientations towards ‘learning’ as a central concern, and a subsequent marginalisation of teacher expertise. (Knox, J., […]
When I became Director of Studies at Peponi House Prep School, one of my jobs was to start a data tracking system of the pupils, using standardised testing. Peponi House was a little school in the suburbs of Nairobi, which had suddenly grown expedentially, becoming an accreditated member of the Independent Association of Prep Schools […]
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