Looking back on 2024 it felt like this was a year in which the role of technology in children’s lives was being questioned like never before. In several countries there was a push back against smart phones in school (or rather than an outright ban teachers were collecting them in and returning to students at… Continue reading What should we do about children’s access to digital devices?
Category: schools
Rethinking Education Post Covid
I had the opportunity to reflect on using technology in teaching and learning post lock down at the International Conference on ‘ICT as a Tool for Digitalization of Education (ICTTDE) 2023’. Here is a summary of my talk for those at the conference and may be for those not. What we can learn about digital technology from… Continue reading Rethinking Education Post Covid
Remembering school
In the London Review of Books the other day, the academic Laura Finlayson wrote a short memoir on her school days [1] . She was very far from happy and she explains: When I was thirteen, I left school and never went back. I don’t remember much about my last day. I don’t remember what… Continue reading Remembering school
School closures and educational disadvantage
We are now getting a better idea of the impact of school closures on children’s education (as I write this some students are going back to school but the picture is mixed, it is still not education as normal). Many schools have been going well beyond what is formally expected in supporting access to free school… Continue reading School closures and educational disadvantage
Football, schools and a changing world
Every year our research students put on a conference and the theme for this year was education in a changing world. For me one of the most obvious but far reaching features of this changing world is our interconnectedness. What happens faraway can have a resonance in ways that were not envisaged in the past.… Continue reading Football, schools and a changing world
Pessimism and technology in school
Two recent news items posted to the BBC news web site have helped contribute to a pessimistic narrative about using technology in school. The more recent of these is an evaluation of online charter schools which found that in 17 US states these schools were associated with ‘significantly weaker academic performance’ in maths and reading… Continue reading Pessimism and technology in school
in praise of praise
As I come to later, I was taken back a little by a Sutton Trust report on ‘what makes great teaching’ . [The Sutton Trust is linked here [http://www.suttontrust.com] and the report itself is at http://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/What-makes-great-teaching-FINAL-4.11.14.pdf%5D . The report says many sensible things about support for learning and the critical importance of feedback. However tucked… Continue reading in praise of praise
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