Articles
Please find below a number of Insight and Opinion Articles from our select speakers group and commercial partners supporting ICT for Education events. Each providing their insight and viewpoint on the issues faced by teachers and their schools in the delivery of Technology into the classroom to support students and learning outcomes. Each provided independently by experts in their field as a free resource to visitors to our website. We welcome submissions which in the first instance should be sent to Sarah Underwood.
6 August 2020
As a former teacher, I know that safeguarding is a fundamental prerequisite to learning, and that it is one of a teacher’s foremost responsibilities. But with half of schools prior to the pandemic relying upon manual, offline safeguarding records systems, teachers’ ability to track concerns during the lock-down has been hamstrung.
3 August 2020
For any school, adapting to Covid-19 is challenging. You might feel that you have managed okay running with small numbers, but what about the start of Autumn term when you will have more staff and children needing to be protected?
3 August 2020
By Andy Barnes, Director of Technology, Bryanston School
29 July 2020
Edtech experts share lessons learned during school shutdown
By Amy Gibbons a reporter at Tes
14 July 2020
Being able to offer ongoing support and resources during uncertain times has been a lifeline for many schools and their students suffering with an unprecedented level of disconnection from normal school life. As we transition back into a new term full of changes and unfamiliar processes, students and parents will need even more communication and support to understand the new normal.
26 June 2020
The impact of COVID-19 fast-tracked the development and launch of VEXcode VR from VEX Robotics. This is a free, web-based software that facilitates learning Computer Science and Robotics by allowing students to code a virtual robot in a block-based coding environment. This then also allows the transition to text-based Python programming.
Paul McKnight, Head of Operations (EMEA), VEX Robotics
24 June 2020
By Ricky Ye, CEO of DFRobot
5 June 2020
With some schools and Academy Trusts reopening, Headteachers and Governors are under tremendous pressure to not only provide a safe classroom environment for pupils, but also ensure they’re still providing excellent education to pupils that aren’t yet eligible to return to school.
By Simon carter, Director at RM Education.
1 June 2020
Prepare your slides as you normally would, remembering that it’s best to use the slides to illustrate the points you want to make; it’s hard for your viewer to read text on the slides whilst listening to you talk, so a small amount of text, images, charts and diagrams are usually more effective than lengthy texts.
21 May 2020
Rene Buhay, vice president of sales and marketing at leading education technology manufacturer AVer Europe, outlines the different types of learning styles and the role education technology can play in personalising lessons to these differing groups.