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.
A Blueprint for Education Data
The Blueprint for Education Data sets out a baseline for data processing of pupil data in schools and other educational establishments.
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Can data-driven education be responsible, lawful and rights-respecting?
By Kruakae Pothong, Ayça Atabey and Sonia Livingstone The volume and types of data, as well as the purposes of data processing in educational contexts, have expanded well beyond the initial purposes of evaluating schools’ performance, »
Balancing interests in EdTech: When is the lawful basis of “legitimate interests” justified?
By Ayca Atabey As of September 2, 2021, all organisations that provide online services that are likely to be accessed by children must comply with »
Navigating education data governance in the UK state schools: A continued conversation
By Emma Day The Digital Futures Commission report on education data governance set out a child rights-based analysis of the use of EdTech in UK »
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 »