Education data reality: the challenges for schools in managing children’s education data
Turner, S., Pothong, K. & Livingstone, S.
(2022).
Education data reality: the challenges for schools in managing children’s education data.
Digital Futures Commission, 5Rights Foundation.
(2022).
Education data reality: the challenges for schools in managing children’s education data.
Digital Futures Commission, 5Rights Foundation.
Managing EdTech and education data constitutes a significant and increasing pressure that individual schools must bear, resulting in uncertainties over – or more likely, failings in – the protection of children’s personal data and its uses for their benefit. This report reveals the problems concerning risks-benefits calculation in choosing EdTech, schools’ limited control over data and limited guidance and resources. The report voices schools’ calls for change in response to these problems.