Business & Industry
Future of Education Technology Q1 2023
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Technology can help make schools a more tranquil place for learning
Aaron John and George Metcalfe, the co-founders of Tes-backed student wellbeing service, Tranquiliti, work with schools to build cultures for wellbeing and provide teachers and pupils with the resources needed to flourish. What inspired the creation of your wellbeing technology? We both had difficult experiences at school, particularly over the lack of wellbeing provision. After...
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Better tech and better decisions lead to better futures for students
Career education has, for some, been the outlier, serving the most tech-savvy users in often low-tech ways. For the benefit of students, the sector and the job market, this needs to change. Hyper-personalisation and masses of behavioural data now drive our everyday life. Netflix finds new shows, Amazon serves us products for our multiple needs, and...
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Supporting pupils’ speech and language needs for future success
On average, one in five pupils in classrooms across the country (some 1.7 million young people) are falling behind with talking and understanding words1 – an increase of almost 200,000 from pre-pandemic levels. The ability to talk and listen affects our ability to read, write and learn at school. Without a broad vocabulary, children struggle...
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Why it’s important for teachers to get the measure of student wellbeing
Schools are using innovative digital assessment tools to help them get a complete picture of their students’ wellbeing, at individual, class and even whole-school levels. There are three reasons why schools should understand their students’ wellbeing, says Dr Irenka Suto, Assistant Director of Assessment at the Cambridge Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM), which provides...
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Helping young learners be part of tomorrow’s data-driven workforce
Going forward, people will need better data skills to thrive in their personal and work lives. That’s why data literacy needs to be further up the educational agenda. Everything we do — from shopping to banking or updating our social media accounts — is data-driven, and we all have digital devices. Making sure that young...
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Helping children as young as three develop elementary coding skills
Technology that enables game-based play — such as programming robots that develop elementary coding skills — can have a positive impact on a child’s formative education. Educators working with early years and primary school pupils may want to use technological tools to make lessons more engaging. However, it’s crucial to distinguish which tools are most...
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How technology is helping teachers make learning to read fun and simple
Government policy changes and modern development techniques have enabled a wave of new innovative phonics instruction tools. “Technology creates abundance,” says Gilbert Jolly, CTO of educational publisher, Jolly Learning. “If you’re a teacher, it’s great that there is a wealth of content online to use in your lessons. The problem, though, is that abundance creates...
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The growing data skills gap and how to close it
An analytics automation company is responding to the market’s data literacy shortages by upskilling a new talent pipeline ready to deliver value to businesses from day one. The demand to drive insights from data has accelerated in the last two decades, explains Libby Duane Adams, Co-Founder and Chief Advocacy Officer of analytics automation company, Alteryx....
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How technology can challenge the possibilities for schools and learners
If knowledge is power, then insights and data are supercharging transformations in learning and assessment. We’ve returned to brick-and-mortar classrooms and exam halls, but our relationship with edtech is forever changed. As aspirations and expectations rightly grow around what edtech can do, it’s insights from schools and technology that are crucial in challenging what’s possible. ...
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How the power of educational technology helps teachers ‘see every student’
Used in the right way, technology can empower teachers and motivate students. Joan Mill, Group Managing Director – International of edtech company, Renaissance, believes that innovative technology when directed by the teacher, is a great educational leveller that can help us ‘see every student.’ What do you mean by ‘see every student’? I say that...