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Educational Data Brokers: Using the Walkthrough Method to Identify Data Brokering by Edtech Platforms
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Janine Arantes – Learning, Media and Technology, 2024
As a result of the growing commercial marketplace for teachers' digital data, a new organization that includes educational data brokers has evolved. Educational data brokerage is relatively intangible due to the ease of de-identified data being collected and sold via educational technology. There is an urgent need to expose how the brokerage of…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Technology, Commercialization, Privacy
Bringing in the Technological, Ethical, Educational and Social-Structural for a New Education Data Governance
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Hillman, Velislava – Learning, Media and Technology, 2023
The need for a comprehensive education data governance -- the regulation of who collects what data, how it is used and why -- continues to grow. Technologically, data can be collected by third parties, rendering schools unable to control their use. Legal frameworks partially achieve data governance as businesses continue to exploit existing…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Governance, Data Use, Laws
'Honestly No, I've Never Looked at It': Teachers' Understandings and Practices Related to Students' Personal Data in Digitised Health and Physical Education
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Lupton, Deborah – Learning, Media and Technology, 2021
In wealthy countries such as Australia, learning and teaching practices in schools have become increasingly digitised as educational technology (EdTech) initiatives gather momentum. This digitisation inevitably involves rendering many dimensions of students' bodies, activities and practices into digital data formats across learning areas:…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Data Use, Health Education
Cruel Optimism in Edtech: When the Digital Data Practices of Educational Technology Providers Inadvertently Hinder Educational Equity
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Macgilchrist, Felicitas – Learning, Media and Technology, 2019
As digital data become increasingly central to education, hopes for educational equity are pinned more strongly on educational technology providers. This paper examines the data practices of edtech providers who are not simply making token gestures towards justice and equality. Drawing on ethnographic interviews and Berlant's notion of cruel…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Ethnography, Data Analysis, Equal Education
Being "(T)Here": Mobilisin "Mediaspaces" of Learning
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Enriquez, Judith – Learning, Media and Technology, 2013
The mobile learning literature, particularly studies that focus on interaction or context, has the tendency to be top-down and highly scripted. Mobility is designed into learning scenarios and spaces. In this article, I proposed a practice perspective for research as an alternative starting point to "set in motion" all modes of learning…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Telecommunications, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices
Seamless Learning in the Mobile Age: A Theoretical and Methodological Discussion on Using Cooperative Inquiry to Study Digital Kids On-the-Move
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Toh, Yancy; So, Hyo-Jeong; Seow, Peter; Chen, Wenli; Looi, Chee-Kit – Learning, Media and Technology, 2013
This paper shares the theoretical and methodological frameworks that are deployed in a 3-year study to examine how Singapore primary school students leverage on mobile technology for seamless learning. This notion of seamless learning refers to the integrated and synergistic effects of learning in both formal and informal settings, which is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Inquiry, Cooperation