A clearer understanding of teachers’ needs is required if schools and universities are to be better prepared for a future where technology is key to teaching and learning.
- Associate Professor in Education & Technology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Jika inovasi dunia digital saat ini adalah pihak yang disalahkan mengapa fokus perhatian kita semakin menurun, bukankah ada kemungkinan inovasi tersebut juga bisa jadi solusinya?
If innovations of our digital age are largely to blame for decreasing attention spans, don’t they also hold possible solutions?
You may not “like” it, but Facebook has an important role to play in education.
The issues of accessibility, communication and connection are especially relevant when it comes to understanding why so many people vent their spleen on social media.
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
Schools are focusing on the wrong objective when it comes to using technology in their classrooms. They should focus just as much on how they teach.
There are many exciting new publishing opportunities opening up for academics who want to take their work beyond traditional spaces like journals.
Les enfants ont de plus en plus de mal à se concentrer. Du coup, des écoles se tournent vers la ludification, qui incorpore des éléments issus du jeu vidéo, pour rendre le cursus plus attrayant.
Introducing game-like elements into classrooms can boost student motivation and learning.
There’s a great deal of debate about what devices schools should be using. But educators should be focusing on how children learn, not what they learn on.
Le « binge watching » ou « boulimie télévisuelle » induit souvent un comportement passif chez les enfants qui nuit à leur capacité d’apprendre.
Teenagers spend more time consuming media than they do sleeping. Most of this consumption is passive - a habit that’s creeping into classrooms, too.
An education revolution is happening online that could help meet the demand made by South African students during recent protests: free education for all.
Children’s insatiable curiosity and search for new knowledge is getting lost somewhere along the way. We’ve mislaid the art of the question.
There may be a chemical secret to getting kids interested in learning – and it’s one that’s created and produced by our own bodies rather than in a lab.
Wikipedia is frequently considered an unacceptable and unreliable source of information. It’s also constantly correcting – and isn’t that what content should strive to do?
Educational technology can be a powerful tool, but it must be accompanied by new, modern teaching methods.
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