Although classroom computers have been with us since the 1970s, schools have only recently become truly ‘digital’. Now, every school seems full of digital devic...
This article is based on an extract from a chapter in Dunlosky J and Rawson K (eds) The Cambridge Handbook on Cognition and Education. New York: Cambridge Unive...
In recent years, the slideshow presentation has become so ubiquitous in our schools that it has become rare to walk into a lesson and not see one on display. Ho...
In the five years to 2012, UK schools spent more than £1 billion on digital technology, ‘an investment that did not necessarily result in radical improvements t...
While there is no shortage of polarised (and polarising) debates in education, the question of whether or not schools should ban mobile phones has received part...
This article reports the initial findings undertaken by a transnational team of academics and teachers funded from an Erasmus+ project entitled ‘Designing and E...
Based on over 30 years’ experience as a teacher and teacher educator, including research in over 50 schools looking at digital technology strategies, I believe ...
I don’t think anyone would deny that there are barriers to the effective use of digital technologies in education: from the fundamentals such as a stable and se...
In 2018, Secretary of State for Education Damian Hinds issued a challenge to the education technology industry to help solve some of the most pressing problems ...
Even though ICT and digital technology have been on the agenda in education since the first BBC Micro rolled off the production line in 1981, a debate continues...
Academic interest in digital technologies in education has been growing for a number of years. Whilst mobile digital devices and other technologies have become ...
When he wasn't lecturing in psychology at Ohio State University, Sidney Pressey spent his down time building a machine that may one day replace him: a teaching ...
This article is fundamentally about teachers and their expertise. The teachers in this research study stood out for the intelligent way in which they adapted t...
The ‘blended learning’ strategy
Blended learning is described by Garrison and Kanuka (Garrison and Kanuka , 2004) as ‘the thoughtful integration of classroom f...
In the past decade, classrooms have begun to shift away from textbooks, notebooks, pens and pencils and towards electronic media. In college classrooms, increas...
Today’s students are the first generation to grow up surrounded by technology. Laptops, e-readers and other digital tools are almost omnipresent, both in and ou...
Much of the discussion surrounding digital games tends to focus on the possible negative aspects, including children and young people spending too much time pla...
Research suggests that difficulties in low-level transcriptional processes such as handwriting and spelling or capitalisation can affect the quality and fluency...
The New Wave Federation consists of three high-performing local authority primary schools in Hackney, Inner London. Improving outcomes through academic success ...
Technology for learners with literacy difficulties is used widely in higher education, but not yet in schools. A survey of students eligible for assistive techn...