Can today’s educational technology deliver on its promise?
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The education technology sector constantly offers new products to solve old problems. Will anything be different this time?
Educational technology, while no silver bullet, can be a tool for learning.
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The language and speech technology has been developed to provide linguistic accuracy and is grounded in teaching principles.
The future of education is about more than technology.
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Adapting post-secondary education through technological, social and cultural shifts depends on paying attention to healthy connection, social justice and amplifying what’s now going well.
UNESCO’s new report calls for corporate responsibility and stronger governance to regulate education technology.
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A new report from UNESCO analyzes the many challenges of the growing presence of technology in education and notes 14 per cent of countries have policies that ban mobile phones.
Lecturers felt unprepared for the shift to remote teaching, saying they had neither received nor sought relevant training.
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Training for academics needs to be timely, specific, relevant and appropriate for the technology being implemented.
Teachers need to be able to connect games used at school to curricula and students’ lives.
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Without an educator to critically engage students about learning in a game, the learning can be misinformed or lost.
Freemium software in education exacerbates the digital divide for students who may be economically disadvantaged compared to their peers.
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Software that advertises premium features for a fee is ill-suited to school environments, where children should experience universal access.
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The fast-growing educational technology industry is poorly regulated and profits from user data. Australian law, education departments and schools can all do more to improve safeguards for children.
The pandemic fuelled the market for educational technology providers to market hardware and software to Canadian school boards.
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Technology has infiltrated education, but how do we choose what is best for teaching and learning?
Chatbots could take over the majority of low-level guidance tasks fielded by staff in teaching and learning centres to free them up for where in-person support is most needed.
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Chatbots can be part of a broader approach universities’ teaching and learning centres can take to support faculty in innovating teaching practices.
Emergency remote learning shouldn’t be confused with carefully crafted online curricula.
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While the pandemic undoubtedly sped up the uptake of educational technology in higher education, it doesn’t point to an entirely online future.
Hearables are wearable listening devices that can interact with the wearer and the environment.
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Hearing technologies combined with artificial intelligence can be used to enrich the learning environment.
Research from Alberta points to the burden parents have faced with home learning. Here, a youth passes Bloor Collegiate Institute in Toronto, May 27, 2021.
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The pandemic education shock has raised five critical issues that demonstrate how student learning and achievement and social well-being are far from mutually exclusive.
Schools are facing accelerated COVID-19 pressures to integrate technology into children’s education, and how they do has far-reaching implications.
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Insights of neuroscientist Ian McGilchrist, philosopher Nel Noddings and physicist Ursula Franklin help centre students and our collective future in debates about education and technology.
Thomas Reevely, 10, takes part in a class meeting in Ottawa, April 3, 2020.
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It is morally unjustifiable for tech companies to walk away from the pandemic with massive profits while schools are burdened with debt.
As technology - and the data that drives it - becomes more integral in education, policies will need to shift.
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Data underlies the kinds of applications that are proposed for use in the country’s education system.
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Students prefer videos that are simply produced, convenient to watch and with a narrative that’s delivered in an informal conversational way.
A Grade 6 student takes part in a virtual school session with her teacher and classmates via Zoom from her home in Vancouver, April 2, 2020.
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Children in our schools are the latest at risk in a brave new age of surveillance and data control that is being catalyzed by hasty educational technology decisions under COVID-19.
We’re in a tunnel at the moment, and when the pandemic ends what kids and our society needs will look different.
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An expert predicts a rethink on technology access, reconnecting with the working class, and more.
Eye contact gets warped in the virtual world.
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An educational technology scholar illuminates some of odd feelings people experience when they communicate through cameras on the web.