Learning to Live with Datafication

Luci Pangrazio is a senior lecturer and Alfred Deakin postdoctoral research fellow at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research studies personal data and privacy, the politics of digital platforms and young people’s critical understandings of digital media. She is currently researching methods for visualising and understanding digital data for educational purposes. Her book Young People’s Literacies in the Digital Age: Continuities, Conflicts and Contradictions was published in 2019 by Routledge.Julian Sefton-Green is a Professor of New Media Education at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He has worked as an independent scholar and has held positions at the Department of Media & Communication, London School of Economics & Political Science, and at the University of Oslo. He has researched and written widely on many aspects of media education, new technologies, creativity, digital cultures and informal learning and has authored, co-authored or edited 18 books and has spoken at over 50 conferences in over 20 countries.Both editors are chief investigators at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child.

"This excellent collection, Learning to Live with Datafication: Educational Case Studies and Initiatives from Across the World, emphasizes the necessity of research that focuses on situated effects, uses, and interpretations of data-driven technologies in education. It asks important questions about the experiences of living, teaching and learning in datafied systems, how datafication might evolve in the future, what should be done about it, and calls for informed critical discussion about how teaching and learning might be strengthened by datafication."Professor Ben Williamson, Chancellor’s Fellow at the Centre for Research in Digital Education, University of Edinburgh, UK

• 1. Learning to live well with data: Concepts and challenges 2. Datafication and the role of schooling: challenging the status quo 3. Turn off your camera and turn on your privacy: A case study about Zoom and digital education in South American countries 4. Data classes: an investigation of the people that ‘do data’ in schools 5. Educators’ data literacy: understanding the bigger picture 6. Datafication, Educational Platforms, and Proceduralized Ideologies 7. The tipping point in the platformization of Dutch public education? How to approach platformization from a values-based perspective 8."The Beatles with the Lower Score, it Breaks my Heart": Framing a Media Education Response to Datafication and Algorithmic Recommendations in Digital Media Infrastructures 9. Critical Algorithm Literacy Education in the Age of Digital Platforms: teaching children to understand YouTube recommendation algorithms 10. Emerging from the Shadows of Datafication: A Favorable Turn for Cultural Studies 11. Children’s privacy and digital literacy across cultures: implications for education and regulation 12. Conclusion: Learning to live better with data Afterword: The future of datafication in education? Clouds, bodies, and ethics