Program agenda
DAY ONE
Tuesday September 29, 2020
09:30 Welcome from defenddigitalme
Jen Persson, defenddigitalme
10:00 2020 Vision: Algorithms in Exams, Education, and other Public Services Panel discussion
Panel Moderator: Jen Persson, defenddigitalme
Panelists:
Martha Dark, Foxglove Legal
Curtis Parfitt-Ford, A-level Student
Jhanelle White, University Student
10:45 Datafied Public Services: Politics and policy (and algorithms)
Joanna Redden, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University
11:10 Views from a young developer
Andreea Giurgiu Teens-In-AI developer
11:30 Youth Questions for Policy Makers
The Warren Youth Group | Voices from Hull and Helsinki
11:45 Children’s Data and Privacy Online
Sonia Livingstone, Professor, Department of Media and Communications, LSE
12:15 Our life online and online privacy
The Warren Youth Group | panel
BREAK 13:00—14:00
14:00 Tik Tok, Shadow Banning, and Disability: the issues with social media, data, and online safety
Elizabeth Wright, speaker, writer, disability activist and consultant, and a Paralympic Medalist
14:30 Exclusions in education: more than the data
Nadine Bernard, Headteacher
15:00 Critical issues and new directions in big data and AI in education
Ben Williamson, Chancellor’s Fellow in the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh
15:30 On AI, Algorithms and Analytics in Public Services | Panel discussion
Panel Moderator: Ivana Bartoletti, Women Leading in AI network co-founder
Panelists:
Godfred Boahen Policy Officer at the British Association of Social Workers (From Sept 2020 National Safeguarding Policy and Development Lead at the Church of England)
Joanna Redden, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University
DAY TWO
Wednesday September 30, 2020
09:30 Where do your school records go?
Introduction and short animation, defenddigitalme
09:45 A rapid response in the COVID-19 crisis
Neil Selwyn, Distinguished Research Professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University
10:10 A digital future for further education and skills
Bob Harrison
10:30 Safeguarding in schools Q&A panel
Panel Moderator: Ann Marie Christian, Safeguarding in schools expert
Panelists:
Ailidh Callander, Legal Officer
Georg Ell, CEO Smoothwall
Leo Ratledge, Policy and Legal Officer at CRIN (Child Rights International Network)
11:15 Life through a Lens
Emmeline Taylor, Associate Professor in Criminology at City, University of London
11:55 Analysing the past, present and future uses of biometric technology in the education sector
Pippa King, founder, Biometrics-in-Schools
13:15 edTech Movers and Shakers: a look behind the big business of edTech
Ed Tranham, founder and editor of The Assignment Report, a leading source of education industry news
13:40 Bukky Yusuf, Teacher and ambassador for Leadership Matters and co-chair of the Department for Education’s EdTech Leadership Group. (Presenting in a personal capacity).
14:05 Playful dataveillance: Unpacking Google’s Edtech strategy through the Pioneer project
Zoetanya Sujon, Programme Director, Communications and Media programme at LCC, University of the Arts London
14:30 Enforcement in education: The state of GDPR across the EU so far
Nani Jansen Reventlow, Director of the Digital Freedom Fund, Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School and Adjunct Professor at Oxford University Blavatnik School of Government
15:00 Highlights from the State of Data 2020 report
Jen Persson, defenddigitalme
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Between algorithmic fairness in exam moderation and the rush to remote learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 has raised questions on children’s digital rights like never before in England’s education system. defenddigitalme is a call to action.
We have a vision of a rights’ respecting environment in the state education sector in England. We want to help build the future of safe, fair and transparent use of data across the public sector. This event will coincide with the launch of our report The State of Data 2020: mapping the data landscape in England’s state education system. We ask questions and aim to build better than today in policy and practice.
- Move forward the conversation on delivering the vision of a rights’ respecting environment in UK schools.
- How does a remote learning infrastructure in the state education system affect its delivery?
- Do questions of pedagogy and learning matter in edTech?
- Increase understanding of the wider edTech market, strengths and weaknesses of the current UK adoptions, and the implications for children’s learning and everyday lives
- Understand the value of privacy and data protection as a route to to good practice for clarity, confidence, and consistency in successful national and local decisions
- Empower current and future school senior leadership and decision-takers in edTech procurement with a bigger picture perspective
- Food for thought on the roles of ‘digital’ and what’s missing in further education.
- Explore the implications for the future state and society, as a result of children’s datafication in today’s state education and public sector: “Where do we go from here?”
- What do young people feel about privacy and why it matters to them?
- Bridge the gap between practice and academic research; bringing data protection and privacy expertise to a new audience
- Bring different communities together to improve cross-sector understanding, to ask questions that benefit the community, and to share knowledge, common aims and concerns and how the sector can address them.
- Let's kick off some conversations about why and where we need change.
