Teachers and technology: time to get serious

NEIL SELWYNJanuary 2019

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...

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How multimedia can improve learning and instruction

RICHARD MAYERJanuary 2019

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...

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Using Cognitive Load Theory to improve slideshow presentations

ANDY THARBYJanuary 2019

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...

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Digital schools? Teachers still matter

MARK QUINNJanuary 2019

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...

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Banning mobile phones in schools: Reflecting on the debate

Cat ScuttJanuary 2019

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...

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Is the use of mobile devices in schools really innovative? What does the evidence say?

KEVIN BURDEN, SANDRA SCHUCK and MATTHEW KEARNEYJanuary 2019

This article reports the initial findings undertaken by a transnational team of academics and teachers funded from an Erasmus+ project entitled ‘Designing and E...

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Bring Your Own is the best mobile device strategy because…

PETER TWININGJanuary 2019

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 ...

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Rethinking education technology from digital tool to digital place: New perspectives, new affordances

RICHARD OSBORNEJanuary 2019

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...

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Getting inside the black box: Piloting and evaluating education technology in schools

KRISTEN WEATHERBY and ALISON CLARK-WILSONJanuary 2019

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 ...

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Technology companies and teachers – what problem is your product solving?

RACHEL EVANSJanuary 2019

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...

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Towards a Digital Sociology of Schools

EDWARD FALSHAWJanuary 2019

Academic interest in digital technologies in education has been growing for a number of years. Whilst mobile digital devices and other technologies have become ...

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Experts in a bottle? 100 years of the teaching machine

ED BUTCHERJanuary 2019

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 ...

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How teachers with ‘authentic’ expertise fully connect with their students in adapting technology for improved teaching and learning

ANDY GOODWYNJanuary 2019

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...

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Interweaving traditional and digital approaches: The development of blended learning at Sandringham School

FERGAL MOANEJanuary 2019

The ‘blended learning’ strategy Blended learning is described by Garrison and Kanuka (Garrison and Kanuka , 2004) as ‘the thoughtful integration of classroom f...

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The relative advantages and disadvantages of paper and digital media in education

DANIEL OPPENHEIMERJanuary 2019

In the past decade, classrooms have begun to shift away from textbooks, notebooks, pens and pencils and towards electronic media. In college classrooms, increas...

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Medium matters: The effects of print and digital texts on comprehension

LAUREN SINGER TRAKHMANJanuary 2019

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...

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Prosocial digital games for inclusion in the primary classroom

SARAH PARSONS and EFSTATHIA KARAKOSTAJanuary 2019

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...

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Unleashing the potential in young writers: Using speech recognition software with students with writing difficulties

MARIA KAMBOURI and HELEN SIMONJanuary 2019

Research suggests that difficulties in low-level transcriptional processes such as handwriting and spelling or capitalisation can affect the quality and fluency...

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Technology for active learning: Using iPads to support learners with English as an additional language

CASSEY WILLIAMS and DUNCAN KILTYJanuary 2019

The New Wave Federation consists of three high-performing local authority primary schools in Hackney, Inner London. Improving outcomes through academic success ...

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Using assistive technology to give SEND learners independence

JULES DAULBYJanuary 2019

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...

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