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Book SynopsisAs digital technologies play a key role across all aspects of our societies and in everyday life, teaching students about data is becoming increasingly important in schools and universities around the world. Bringing together international case studies of innovative responses to datafication, this book sets an agenda for how teachers, students and policy makers can best understand what kind of educational intervention works and why.
Learning to Live with Datafication is unique in its focus on educational responses to datafication as well as critical analysis. Through case studies grounded in empirical research and practice, the book explores the dimensions of datafication from diverse perspectives that bring in a range of cultural aspects. It examines how educators conceptualise the social implications of datafication and what is at stake for learners and citizens as educational institutions try to define what datafication will mean for the next generation.
Trade Review
"This excellent collection, Learning to Live with Datafication: Educational Case Studies and Initiatives from Across the World, emphasizes the necessity of research that focuses on situated effects, uses, and interpretations of data-driven technologies in education. It asks important questions about the experiences of living, teaching and learning in datafied systems, how datafication might evolve in the future, what should be done about it, and calls for informed critical discussion about how teaching and learning might be strengthened by datafication."
Professor Ben Williamson, Chancellor’s Fellow at the Centre for Research in Digital Education, University of Edinburgh, UK
Table of Contents1. Learning to live well with data: Concepts and challenges 2. Datafication and the role of schooling: challenging the status quo 3. Turn off your camera and turn on your privacy: A case study about Zoom and digital education in South American countries 4. Data classes: an investigation of the people that ‘do data’ in schools 5. Educators’ data literacy: understanding the bigger picture 6. Datafication, Educational Platforms, and Proceduralized Ideologies 7. The tipping point in the platformization of Dutch public education? How to approach platformization from a values-based perspective 8."The Beatles with the Lower Score, it Breaks my Heart": Framing a Media Education Response to Datafication and Algorithmic Recommendations in Digital Media Infrastructures 9. Critical Algorithm Literacy Education in the Age of Digital Platforms: teaching children to understand YouTube recommendation algorithms 10. Emerging from the Shadows of Datafication: A Favorable Turn for Cultural Studies 11. Children’s privacy and digital literacy across cultures: implications for education and regulation 12. Conclusion: Learning to live better with data Afterword: The future of datafication in education? Clouds, bodies, and ethics
