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Anyone who works or studies in a university is likely to encounter a huge range of technologies in the course of their daily activities. These are technologies that help us communicate, collaborate and create, as well as store data, keep track of activities, assess performance, remind us of due dates, check for plagiarism, and more. Many of these technologies offer the capacity for increased surveillance, and some are already being used to monitor and/or quantify some of our activities.
The Data Stories Creator is a scaffolded storytelling tool that uses fiction writing to explore aspects of an interaction with technology, and hopes or concerns it raises, by speculating about what could happen.
The Data Stories tool was built as a WordPress plugin, in collaboration between academic researchers and a web developer, over several months in 2020. An iterative process of building, testing and refining led to a three-part data storytelling tool: prompts; mapping and writing. By working with actions, actors and interactions, learning technologists and others with a stake in how data is used in higher education can articulate concerns and hopes, and think about the future of surveillance and data ethics in a creative way.
In this session, Anna Wilson (University of Stirling) & Jen Ross (University of Edinburgh) will discuss the project and facilitate an interactive prompt/map session to give participants a chance to experience the Data Stories approach and consider its use in their own work with colleagues and students.
Martin Hawksey posted an update in the session Telling Data Stories: a tool for thinking about higher education, surveillance & ethics [674] 1 month ago
A recording of this session is available from https://eu.bbcollab.com/recording/2ad8b35536d244f69a8cb9ad6aa8d532
Jen Ross posted an update in the session Telling Data Stories: a tool for thinking about higher education, surveillance & ethics [674] 1 month ago
Here is the link to the Data Stories web site – http://datastories.de.ed.ac.uk/
Jen Ross posted an update in the session Telling Data Stories: a tool for thinking about higher education, surveillance & ethics [674] 1 month ago
thanks to all who were able to join us! if you have questions about the data stories tool, please ask – and please do try it out if you have time over the next couple of days! we’d love some stories from the ALT community.
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