Business & Industry
Future of EdTech Q1 2022
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The future of education must embrace edtech
Our focus now is looking ahead to life beyond COVID-19. We need to retain the best bits of technology, adapt them and implement them into our new normal. The pandemic has opened up new ways of working with technology we could barely have imagined just a few years ago. In the case of the Department...
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High quality digital tools are crucial for education
The technology that took education through the pandemic is being given a central role in the classroom and students are seeing the benefits. Technology played an important part in education during the COVID-19 pandemic but as schools and colleges resume face-to-face lessons, it continues to evolve as a teaching tool. Education technology specialist Matt Waring...
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Creativity, confidence and choices are the future of edtech
For many schools and families, the last two years have seen a ‘crash course’ in edtech. The question now is: which lessons do we choose to take forward? Catalysed by the pandemic, edtech became the mainstay of every stage of learning – being simultaneously the register, the virtual classroom and where assessments and homework took...
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Giving life to old devices in schools to help close the technology gap
There’s no doubt that technology is transforming teaching and learning. The new technology is helping schools provide more equitable access to edtech tools and reduce e-waste. If there is one big lesson that education leaders can take from the past two years’ of school closures and disruptions to classroom learning, it’s that technology can help...
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The ethical challenges of digital education
The emergence of smart education technologies presents many opportunities for education. But how can governments harness the benefits of technology in education while limiting its possible risks? While they used to mainly rely on a diagnosis and assessments of students’ knowledge, intelligent tutoring systems increasingly factor in students’ engagement in learning, metacognitive and other behavioural...
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Using edtech to empower the learning experience
The ‘World of Tomorrow’ was the theme and, at the height of the event, to a packed standing room only audience, Elektro was launched – the walking talking robot, proudly boasting, ‘my brain is bigger than yours.’ The year was 1939 and New York City had just put on the largest exposition in US history....
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Why the future university campus will be digital first
Long before the pandemic hit, higher education was ripe for disruption. Now universities must plan for a future where digital is front and centre of institutional missions and strategies. The rapid transition to online education delivery has provided a myriad of possibilities for institutions to deliver more flexible, personalised learning opportunities for students at scale....
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Evidence based solutions are the key to success of edtech sector
The past two years have highlighted the importance of technology and, as we emerge from the pandemic, we must find a way to embed edtech across the curriculum. In March 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the first UK COVID-19 related lockdown. He advised us to stay indoors, to stay safe and, where possible, to...
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Video learning for the 21st century school
Video learning platforms that came to the fore during COVID-19 lockdown periods are shaping the educational teaching landscape as schools enter the post-pandemic era. Many schools switched to online learning during the pandemic lockdowns out of necessity. But as education returns to traditional teaching, virtual and video learning elements of education are being retained in...
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What does edtech best practice really look like?
To gain a greater knowledge of edtech best practice, we need to champion the principles that enable it to take place. Education technology provision has continued to climb throughout the pandemic as schools explore new methods of supporting hybrid learning. Despite the significant impact of COVID-19 on the education sector and ongoing disruption, educators are...