Child-directed educational technology can deliver high quality education for millions of marginalised children worldwide.
Social interactions with parents, friends and teachers can have profound impacts on a child’s learning, development and understanding. What if some of those interactions are with AI systems?
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Before charging ahead to a world of AI babysitters and teacher or companion robots, we should consider this technology carefully to assess its appropriateness in children’s lives.
Can today’s educational technology deliver on its promise?
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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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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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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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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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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.
Director of Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Rhodes University & Visiting Research Professor in Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Rhodes University