This episode of CLPL focuses on the rationale for using, or not using, digital technology in learning. An Education Endowment Foundation report in 2021 states that:

• Effective use of digital technology is driven by learning and teaching goals rather than a specific technology​
• ​New technology does not automatically lead to increased attainment​
• Pupils’ motivation to use technology ≠ more effective learning
  

So, if digital does not intrinsically enhance learning then why do we use it?

Collaboration helps “build social capital among teachers and other educators improves student learning… it also improves the ability to initiate and implement change, as ideas spread and last beyond a few individual brainwaves.” – A. Hargreaves and M. T O’Connor

In the same paper they also state that “The strongest case for digital technology in education or life, however, is when it uniquely provides something of value that cannot be offered in any other way.”

This session will outline the expectation of the programme that ideas and resources are shared between participants but also with the wider teaching community.

Read the full paper