Reconfigurations in Education Research: EDU-STS as an Emerging Field III. Reconfiguraciones en la investigación educativa: EDU-STS como campo emergente III

Abstract

Chair: Cristina Alarcón López

This third session of the three-part Open Panel 'Reconfigurations in Education Research: EDU-STS as an Emerging Field' concentrates on different dimensions of datafication and quantification in education. Taking an STS perspectives our selected speakers will explore
datafication/quantification in different contexts ranging from Scandinavia, the USA, Australia to Mexico. They will critically discuss topics as the use of machine learning algorithms in higher education; automated conceptualisations of productivity in the context of academia; the implementation of “innovation” projects in public high schools based on asynchronous learning, makerspaces, and personalized technology; the dynamic and effects of digitalization for democratic engagement programs through prototyping in schools and the epistemic shift of conceptualizing reading in education through measurements and quantifications practices. This will be a face-to-face bilingual session, with papers delivered in Spanish and English, and bilingual facilitation by the chair.

Individual Presentations

• Hacia la Reconfiguración del Imaginario en Torno a la Incertidumbre en el Aprendizaje Automático Supervisado - Marisol Flores-Garrido, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Luis Miguel García-Velázquez, ENES Morelia, UNAM

• Automated Conceptualisations of Academic Productivity: Digital Surveillant-Assistance in higher education - luke heemsbergen, Deakin University; Radhika Gorur, Deakin University; Shiri Krebs, Deakin University

• Innovation Imaginaries: Infrastructures of Reform in an Urban Public High School - Phil Nichols, Baylor University

• Prototyping the Future, Prototyping Citizens – the Danish Trial of ‘Technology Comprehension’ in Public School - Simy Kaur Gahoonia, IT University of Copenhagen; Christopher Gad, IT-University of Copehagen

• The Fiction of Numbers: How reading is made a public and didactic problem - Elin Sundström Sjödin, Mälardalen University, Sweden; Daniel Pettersson, Högskolan i Gävle; Magnus Persson, Malmö University

Chair

• Cristina Alarcón López, University of Vienna

Session Organizer

• Lesley Gourlay, UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION