Using Digital Technology to Improve Learning

[mwnci]

Worth reading:

 

The Education Endowment Foundation’s (EEF) has published its latest guidance report today, Using Digital Technology to Improve Learning. The report reviews the best available evidence to offer schools four recommendations of how technology can improve teaching and learning.

 

Schools spend an estimated £900 million each year on education technology. However, an overarching recommendation in the report is that technology itself is unlikely to improve young people’s learning.

 

Put simply, this means buying a tablet for every pupil is unlikely to boost pupil attainment. But the pedagogy behind it can. So, if those tablets are used purposefully – for example, increasing the quality or quantity of practice pupils undertake through a quiz app, or the precision with which feedback on misunderstandings is provided – they stand a much better chance of doing so.

 

The report – which is free to download here – also includes guidance on tailoring school communications to encourage parental engagement and offering more intensive support where needed.

[Brimstone]

Is this report new...? Because there is nothing new here.

 

Putting mobile devices whatever they may be in the hands of every student is not a silver bullet to improve teaching and learning in schools, just persuaded a school to scrap it's BYOD program as frankly they are a waste of time.

[DrBeaker]

If they can't or don't want to learn using pen and paper, despite the fact we know it CAN - but how is technology going to improve things?