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An app doesn’t have to be ‘educational’ to be included in Google’s ‘Teacher Approved’ section.
AI’s potential needs to be explored through experimentation. But this works best if managed under controlled environments.
Educators and parents should ignore information unrelated to educational quality, like star ratings — and instead look for benchmarks of quality when choosing an EduApp.
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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Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology, University of Salford
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PhD student, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University
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Associate Professor of Learning Sciences, Faculty of Education, McGill University
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Senior lecturer/ Co-Director, University of the Free State
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Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Society, Utrecht University
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Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child, Deakin University
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Professor, Teaching and Learning, University of Montana
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Associate Professor, Early Childhood Curriculum Studies, MacEwan University