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Big data is bad data

Jan 11, 2016 | Category: leadership
The cost of bad data is the illusion of knowledge. – Stephen Hawking Schools, as with almost every other organ of state, are increasingly obsessed with big data. There seem to be two main aims:...

The Illusion of Knowing

Nov 20, 2015 | Category: leadership
Knowledge, n.: The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.Ambrose Bierce Advanced Learning has commissioned me to write a piece about the uses and abuses of data in schools. My thesis,...

Making data meaningful: Pen Portraits

Oct 13, 2013 | Category: leadership
Most of what makes classrooms work is invisible. The activities that teachers and students enact are, by and large, irrelevant. I'm aware that this runs the risk of sounding like preposterous nonsense...