This week I tracked the weather! First I tried to track the weather at different times of the day, morning, afternoon and evening. But when translating the (simple) data into a visualisation I decided to show the most prevalent weather / temperature that day. Just because it looked nicer and was easier to illustrate. Ever since working from home for most of the last year, I’ve enjoyed looking out the windows in my apartment, observing the clouds, change in weather, taking short time-laps videos of the changing of the sunrise or sunset. It is how I take a break from…
Digital technologies and data systems are shaping the educational systems and everyday life of students and teachers. The extent and presence of these systems in schools and higher education spaces is growing every day, often without being noticed by educators until it is already embedded into the educational practice. The quick adoption of new technologies in the classroom, often with very little consideration of the ‘data subjects’, lead to a ‘pedagogical reductionism’ that values ‘datafied learning’ over any other types of ‘learning’. (Williamson, Bayne and Shay, 2020) This block we explored how data-driven technologies can enhance and modify educational practices; how…
Dashboards I don’t have a lot of experience using dashboards in education, I’ve only ‘seen’ a few in different digital educational tools we use at school, however, we don’t use them to evaluate student’s learning or teacher’s lessons. An interesting teacher dashboard I explored (and discovered) this week were the one in Microsoft Teams. I was not aware all that data about the students, and me, was collected. As I was reading more about Teacher dashboards, I found and article online about all the data collected in the ‘background’ in Teams. The one for one of my classes looked something…
Week 7 was not my best week of the course so far, and this data visualisation is not the most accurate I’ve created so far, and it’s also the one that took me the most work to design… This week I was reflecting on the different ways education is ‘datafied’, not only in the more traditional sense of data collection, but also in the way that communication is structured, presented and encouraged in an ‘modern’ educational context. The ways in which students can contact me as a teacher are many! Students can: Write an email Send a message (in Teams)…
“Digital Life” and Apple’s “Screen Time” This week I tracked the time I spent on my phone, the applications I used and number of phone ‘pickups’ each day. I was surprised mainly by the number of times I ‘picked up’ or open my phone every day – more than 70 times one day! How dependent am I on my phone? I use it every day and take it with me everywhere. It plays my music, has my emails, messages, social media, audio books, photos, and much more. This week I decided to explore how ‘dashboards’ of data and behaviour are…