Is technology in the classroom mostly a benefit to learning, or mostly a barrier? Educators have been debating the question for at least a decade. Yet the voices of the ultimate “end-users” - aka students - need to be included in the conversation, too.
An overwhelming majority of Australian adults, 86%, believe it’s important for schools to teach information technology skills, and two-thirds agreed that technology was making a positive contribution to education, according a national ...
If we ban phones from classrooms, are we passing up an opportunity for learning?
Phone bans at school simply don’t work, many educators argue. And isn’t the whole idea counterproductive in today’s digital age?