“…This article, however, will concentrate on the issue of the automation of educational environments and processes, and the bearing that these changes have had on teacher practice and inquiry. Arguably, the rapid 'datafication' of education represents the most obvious and pervasive way in which the 'fourth industrial revolution' is currently manifested in educational settings, and particularly in schools (higher education, with its closer associations with changing forms of work, automation, and the 'employability' agenda, experiences it in other ways (Carmichael 2019). If Dyer-Witheford's (1999) assessment of the potential of operaismo and autonomism to offer a counter-interpretation of the information revolution is correct, then it may also offer alternatives to dominant ideas about the relationships between teachers' practice, technology, data and educational outcomes.…”