On this site we regularly publish own commentaries as well as guest commentaries about current developments in the area of datafied education. Additional German-language commentaries can be found on this page and in our newsletter
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„The Dashboarding of Education”
Ein Gastkommentar von Chris Zomer und Luci Pangrazio The datafication of education is an ongoing concern. With datafication we mean the increasing translation of educational practices into digital data, as well as the implementation of processes and tools necessary to support these translations. Some concerns addressed by us and other scholars are the decontexualisation of…
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Depoliticisation as a discursive tool for digitalising education
Guest commentary by Anders Sonesson & Marita Ljungqvist, Division for Higher Education Development, Department of Educational Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. Both digitalisation and education are often identified in policy as enablers for change and innovation with regards to contemporary global “wicked problems”. Education is not only expected to play a leading role for the digitalisation…
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The MünDig Study, the Media Maturity Matrix and its potential for research, practice and policy
Commentary by Paula Bleckmann, Professor of Media Education, Alanus Hochschule Alfter, Co-Founder of UNBLACK THE BOX. The report on the Germany-wide MünDig Study is now available in German, with a brief English abstract. While the existing press coverage focuses mainly on the RESULTS of the study within the Waldorf kindergarten and school sample, this comment…