Number of Posts: 11
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Could Steiner schools have a point on children, tablets and tech?
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 14.6.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | digitized education, school, technology-free
Summary | The Iona school in Nottingham is a more "traditional" school; pupils don’t work on tablets or computers, and in the classroom you can see the old-fashioned blackboard. The school curriculum is based on the 19th century philosopher Rudolf Steiner. Some critics say that the fact that those children don't use screens at school will be disadvantage for them later. When they leave school, they'll be part of a digital world which includes technology. They need to be prepared for that.
Image Description | Photograph of a woman and children kneading dough, man drawing on a blackboard, two boys on a tree, and two children making arts and crafts.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Is this Britain's most high-tech classroom? Behind the scenes at one UK school's 'magic' 4D room
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 12.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | digitized education, school
Summary | A UK school shows what education will look like in the future. One school room is called the 4D room where there is a projected footage on the floor, walls, and ceiling, and an interactive floor for a more immersive experience. Pupils who have been to this room has been transported back in time or have been travelling to remote places. Digital natives will consider smartphones and other digital devices as normal. Therefore, educators need to find a way to deliver lessons that can grasp pupil's attention and imagination. They will still be using traditional classroom tools.
Image Description | Photograph of children in the 4D room, photograph of the 4D room, photograph of a woman standing in front of the UK school, photograph of interactive walls in the room, video about the classroom of the future
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Where Non-Techies Can Get With the Programming
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 4.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | computer programming, digitized education, research/study
Summary | Computer programming is the new lingua franca of modern economy. Introductory classes are increasingly popular at universities with 90% of Standford students taking an introductory computer programming class. Coding can be useful for lawyers, doctors, historians, and even students from the humanities because learning to code entails learning computational thinking.
Image Description | Illustration with a diverse group of faces connexted to written computer code.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), text
Using technology to bridge the learning gap across Africa
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 4.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | digitized education, school
Summary | Digital access in African schools is important; it has the potential to expand and improve the education of millions of African children. However, the question is how to implement digital access in schools. Several initiatives such as One Laptop Per Child have failed. There are a few programs/approaches that might work: Kio Kit, Eneza, Quick Do Book Box.
Image Description | Photograph of four African kids from behind and a school teacher.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Paulinas Englischlehrer
(Paulina's English teacher)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 6.7.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | childhood, digitized education, research/study, technology-free
Summary | Linguists are currently working on robots who can teach foreign languages to children. It is a new research field and it is being tested in several childcare institutions and kindergardens. The results show that children learn better when they are emotionally invested and that is the main advantage of a robot versus just a tablet.The robot is more humanoid and responds emotionally (with praise for correct answers for instance). Recent studies say that 70% of pre-schoolers user their parents' smartphones or tablets for more than 30 minutes a day when that should be the maximum screen time (including TV) a child has per day.
Image Description | A girl using the language learning robot.
Image Tags | female(s), school
So bildet man sich im Job effektiv weiter
(This is how you educate yourself further in your job)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 27.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | digitized education, privacy
Summary | It is imperative for everyone who wants to stay updated in their field to keep educating themselves. Traditinally, this education happened in company seminars but there are increasingly more online courses on offer. MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses) are a modern alternative where teachers and students never meet in person but interact entirely digitally. A course design in between the two is called "blended learning" where students first self-educate online and meet up in a seminar later on. Hot topics in further education of professionals are all things connected to technology and especially topics around privacy.
Image Description | A Getty image of a woman studying on the floor with notes, a laptop, a tablet, and a snack.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, female(s), tablet
Soll mein Kind mit dem Handy für die Schule lernen?
(Should my child use a smartphone to study for school?)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 19.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | childhood, digitized education, school, smartphone
Summary | Education is becoming increasingly digitized - even in primary school. There are many learning apps on offer that let students practice lessons from school, for instance from math or a foreign language. Educators agree that digitized education is the future but that learning apps cannot replace a personal tutor if children have perform poorly in school. Parents are worried that by letting children do schoolwork on their smartphones the children will spend too much time using digital devices over all.
Image Description | Illustration of a girl sitting at a school desk holding her arm up. The desk is placed on a huge smartphone.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
'They're collaborating all the time': the schools making the most of mobile
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 13.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, digitized education, school, smartphone, youth
Summary | Some schools are embracing the technological advancements influencing our everyday lives by incorporating them into their classes. Some classes have even become entirely paper-free! Not all, however, the learning tools are chosen so as to to help maximize students' learning. Students are already familiar and comfortable with most of the technology and it makes no sense to ban smartphones from classrooms if they can enhance learning.
Image Description | Two girls looking at a smartphone together.
Image Tags | female(s), school, smartphone
Zeit der Handy-Verbote geht zu Ende
(The time of cell phone bans is over)
Newspaper | Der Bund
Date | 8.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | childhood, digitized education, school
Summary | Bernese city schools want to purchase one laptop or tablet for each student. The new cantonal curriculum wants new technologies to be integrated in class work projects. It is important that students learn to work with new technologies from an early age because they are becoming increasingly important. The only problem is that such a renewal would be hugely expensive.
Image Description | Keystone image of two pairs of students using one laptop each.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, female(s), male(s)
Schulen verbieten Handys – sogar während Pausen
(Schools prohibit mobile phones – even during recess)
Newspaper | 20 Minuten
Date | 11.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | digitized education, school, smartphone, technology-free
Summary | Several Swiss schools are prohibiting smartphone use at school, even outside of classes. Apparently, teachers think that students are no longer interacting with one another. This ban clearly clashes with the Swiss German curriculum reform “Lehrplan 21” which plans to occasionally introduce smartphone use in the classroom for school assignments. It does not make sense for a few schools to refuse to acknowledge what is now a reality, namely that people now frequently use their smartphones to communicate rather than talking face-to-face.
Image Description | Series of four photographs: group of teenagers sitting together and using their smartphone, and three portraits of male interviewees.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone
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