It’s almost impossible to escape the notion that data is changing every aspect of our lives. ‘Big’ data is often conflated with ideas like artificial intelligence and machine learning, and also ethical issues like privacy and security. And, of course, these ideas have made their way into education, and that means that data, learning analytics and related ideas are going to have an effect on schools, students and teachers. But what might that effect look like? And what does it mean for the teaching profession? How might teachers be prepared to safely make use of tools provided by learning analytics
(this is an excerpt from a short piece that I wrote for The Educator Australia. You can read more here.