Next steps for education technology in England
Description
It follows the recent launch of EDUCATE, a collaborative project which aims to ensure UK products and services have real impact on learning and the agenda includes a keynote address from its director, Professor Rose Luckin. The seminar also takes place in the context of renewed emphasis placed on digital skills in both the industrial strategy and the UK Digital Strategypublished in March 2017.
Attendees will look at the use of technology in schools and the barriers faced
by them in engaging with edtech and key issues surrounding value for money.
They will consider ways in which schools can determine the efficiency and
effectiveness of tech products and services, how teachers’ confidence in the
use of new technologies can be boosted and challenges for maximising educational
outcomes from their use.
Further sessions will look at challenges and opportunities for edtech
suppliers, including ways to navigate a post-Becta market, approaches for
tackling current problems in teaching and learning and the key issues surrounding
marketing to schools. Delegates will also consider ways in which government
could provide more support to younger firms joining the market today.
