Data visualisation to me, before the course, was the big unknown. I only came across the theme of Big Data in the IDEL course and found it daunting and complex yet fascinating and vitally important for what lies ahead in education.
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I found much inspiration for my data collections in my personal and professional life, and I enjoyed the tasks of gathering information and visualising each collection.
Continue reading “Reflections on Block 3 ‘Governing’ with Data”Data visualisation: Technology in my everyday teaching
In my last data collection for this course, I focused on technology in my classroom. For a bit of context: The school I’m working in was the first primary school in Switzerland, which equipped every student with an iPad.
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The inspiration for this week’s data collection came from a chapter on multilingualism I read in ‚The Infrastructure of Accountability: Data use and the transformation of American education’ by Anagnostopoulos et al. (2013). German, French, Italian and Romansh are the four national languages, and multilingualism is close-knit with Switzerland’s history and culture. In the past decades, many more non-national languages became widely spoken, especially due to immigration.
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While I read around the topic of digital education governance and data mining, I took it quite literally for this weeks’ data collection. With time on my hands and our school still on Spring break, I turned to my favourite video game ever since we got introduced to it during the IDEL course: Minecraft!
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