High hopes are held for the advances of big data, learning analytics and AI to benefit children’s education. To ensure these serve children’s interests, our review of policy and practice in combination with new school-centred user research will generate recommendations for child-rights-respecting data governance mechanisms that can unlock the potential of education data.
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Bridging data governance gaps to realise child- rights-respecting learning futures
By Baroness Beeban Kidron When I first introduced the Age Appropriate Design Code (AADC) into the Data Protection Bill in 2018, I had no idea »
The education data governance vacuum: why it matters and what to do about it
By Emma Day What are the necessary steps required to secure the future of children’s data-driven learning? Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE and Professor Sonia Livingstone »
Crucial steps needed for child rights-respecting data governance for children’s learning
By Kruakae Pothong and Sonia Livingstone The rise in data-driven education is marked by polarised discourses of hopes for the beneficial uses of data about »
Embedding children’s rights in data-driven education systems
By Sonia Livingstone The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted in-class, face-to-face learning to remote learning. But the consequences for children’s education are yet to be properly evaluated. Suddenly, education became »
Education data: what’s the problem?
How can schools make good decisions about EdTech and the data it collects? Sonia Livingstone and Kruakae Pothong interviewed Ben Williamson about the growing influence »