On this page, you’ll find an archive of our own commentaries, guest commentaries, and statements from our members on the topic of data-driven education. It includes all English-language articles that appeared in our newsletter prior to January 2026. You can find the German-language archive of all commentary articles from our newsletter here.
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„The Dashboarding of Education”
A guest commentary by Chris Zomer and 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…
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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…