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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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 »