Abstract
ABSTRACT Teachers are increasingly reliant on data dashboards developed by EdTech companies to interpret their students’ learning and behaviour. This article presents the findings of a walkthrough of the engagement dashboard and Live Feed of Education Perfect, a popular learning platform in Australian and New Zealand schools. Using the poststructuralist idea of logics, I will demonstrate how the platform closes off certain understandings of engagement and how this fits an overarching paradigm of neoliberal governance in education. Education Perfect rewrites engagement into something that is measurable, quantifiable and something that can (and should be) used for surveillance and accountability purposes. This puts an imperative on teachers to maximise their students’ engagement metrics. The logics of engagement data that underpin Education Perfect, and learning platforms alike, not only legitimate the increased dataveillance of students, they also gradually erase less measurable aspects of engagement.
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