(http://wrzesnia.freelab.edu.pl)[Freelab 2024] Learning Observer Workshop

Organization and Governance

August 17, 2024, Września, Poland

pl 🇺🇸pl 🇵🇱

The aspirational goal of this session is to help come up with an ideal model for how we ought to manage student data. At present, it’s a mess! We have data spread out over hundreds of systems, with an incredible security perimeter, placing students at risk. At ths same time, there is no way to make coherent insights from this data, either about individual students or systemically.

The practical goal is to give participants a clear sense of trade-offs in this space, form the perspectives of diverse stakeholders, and to collect feedback on the approach we are pursuing. This will be structured as a double-jigsaw:

Format

• Participants will work through one perspective
• We will re-shuffle into groups and try to come up with approaches to student data management based on those perspectives, unbiased by our approach

At this point, you should have a clear understanding of some of the trade-offs in designing this sort of project from a legal, cutural, and policy perspective. From here, we will provide our tentative approach.

Tentative Schedule (2 hours!)

We have a tentative schedule is, but depending on how things go, we may remove sections to allow more time (e.g. if there is good discussion). The intention, however, is very much to keep things rushed and moving quickly. We expect groups might not have time to finish. That’s okay; this is about learning and deep cognitive engagement with the problem (not about the final outputs).

• 10 minutes: Intro to workshop, overview, and demo
• 20 minutes: Jigsaw A: Each table will be given a different perspective to research, Read, research, and discuss this perspective
• 20 minutes: Jigsaw B: We will reshuffle tables. Work together to try to come up with a model for how student data ought to be managed, representing your perspective.
• 30 minutes: Presentations / read-out. We might not make it through all groups, or we might run over shortening the next two segements.
• 15 minutes: Open discussion
• 20 minutes: Our model. I will discuss where I see key frictions, and the approach we propose
• Last 5 minutes: Feedback and next steps

Optional survey on whether you are interested in engaging with this project in some way.

Jigsaw Groups

1. Risk analysis, past, present, and future What are the risks which come from the types of data we are collecting, aggregating, and analyzing? en 🇺🇸 pl 🇵🇱

2. Legal frameworks What are the legal requirements on how we maintain our data? en 🇺🇸pl 🇵🇱
3. Family rights and family engagement What kinds of data do families need to advocate for their students? For other students? To be informed, engaged citizens? en 🇺🇸pl 🇵🇱
4. Psychometric values en 🇺🇸pl 🇵🇱 How have we thought about these problems in the community of educational measurement?
5. Other approaches en 🇺🇸pl 🇵🇱 What can we learn from related initiatives?
6. Global perspectives en 🇺🇸pl 🇵🇱
7. Technocratic models en 🇺🇸pl 🇵🇱
8. Open science and research en 🇺🇸pl 🇵🇱
9. Governance, corruption, and accountability en 🇺🇸pl 🇵🇱
10. Alignment to good classroom practice en 🇺🇸pl 🇵🇱
11. ML Perspectives en 🇺🇸pl 🇵🇱
12. Accelerating research en 🇺🇸pl 🇵🇱