Digital datafication is one of the defining phenomena of our era, including in the field of education. During a typical school day, a vast array of data is collected, processed, and analysed from students via learning analytics, automatic attendance screening, and the use of wearable tracking devices in physical education. As these products are created and sold by global technology companies that are major actors in the datafication of other sectors, the datafication of education, in many ways, replicates the commercial logic of macro-level datafication. However, this situation violates the core principles of education, as it positions students as (datafied) customers, not as agentic subjects. The proposed project, Movement for Data Literacy (MODALITY), aims to theorise, understand, and provide solutions to this undesirable situation

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