If you have a spare 5 minutes, have a listen to this report from the Today programme that you might have missed during the Christmas break.
The BBC’s technology correspondent, Rory Cellan Jones, discusses the role of technology in enhancing teaching and learning.
Technology is a bridge to deeper learning
Yet again, the message is clear: the use of technology starts with good teaching.
In this blog, we’ll continue to share stories about how we support teachers to use technology as a bridge – to engage children and young people in deeper learning. We are all teachers ourselves, and are always on the lookout for the best tools, practices and approaches to inspire and enthuse students to learn and to acheive.
And we share this headteachers’ golden rule: ”If technology is not simple and reliable we will not use it”
As an E Learning Consultant working in schools in Sheffield, Barnsley and Suffolk I totally endorse the notion that most teachers will only use technology if it is simple to use