Educators and parents should ignore information unrelated to educational quality, like star ratings — and instead look for benchmarks of quality when choosing an EduApp.
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Technology is being used in schools without extensive research to show whether it has a positive impact.
The majority of children’s apps advertised as educational are not based on relevant research.
A brief guide for teachers and parents on tech in the classroom.
Teachers are starting to ditch graphing calculators for math apps. Was the expensive tech ever worth it – or is it just holding students back?
Here’s a guide to getting rid of “junk” apps and ensuring your kids develop healthy tech habits both in term time and during the school holidays
For the first time, teachers have voted for the best ebooks to use in school.
“Educational” is often in the eye of the beholder and the potential of any app relates to what you can creatively do with them with children.
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Professor of Reading and Children’s Development, The Open University
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Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities, UCL
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Professor of Early Childhood Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Education & Technology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Montana
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Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Nottingham
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Researcher in Developmental Psychology, University of Salford
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Salford
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PhD student, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University
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Professor, Teaching and Learning, University of Montana
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Associate Professor of Learning Sciences, Faculty of Education, McGill University
