IOEâs EDUCATE programme highlighted in Governmentâs new education technology strategy for schools
11 April 2019
The work of the MyAV·¶ Institute of Education (IOE) EDUCATE programme has been highlighted in a major ÂŁ10 million government initiative to improve the use and development of EdTech in schools.
The Department for Education strategy aims to help schools improve and increase their use of EdTech in teaching and learning, as well as in practical ways to ease teacher workload, and to promote the effective development of EdTech by innovators.
Launching the strategy at the Schools and Academies Show 2019 in London, Damian Hinds, the Secretary of State for Education, said that EdTech was one of the âsingle most important elements in the educational arsenalâ. But it also presented the sector with unique challenges, because it was often seen to increase, as well as decrease, teacher workload.
Mr Hinds said education needed to embrace technology the way other sectors had, or it risked being left behind, but it was also important for EdTech developers to âcome up with more precisely engineered solutions for the education sectorâ.
The EDUCATE programme features in the strategy document under the chapter on âDeveloping a Dynamic EdTech Business Sectorâ, and outlines its work and unique focus on evidence-based EdTech development.
Dr Alison Clark-Wilson, MyAV·¶ EDUCATEâs Principal Research Lead, said: âWe welcome the governmentâs commitment to ensuring a pipeline of innovation and encouraging scale-up of proven products and services.
âOur programme aims to support some of the most imaginative and creative young companies to do just this, by helping them to think through how to gather the evidence that their products are working whilst they build them.
âConsequently, the proposed test-bed schools and colleges mentioned in the strategy are just what we need to enable this participatory research to take place, which will better ensure that the needs of teachers, lecturers, parents and of course, learners, are met.â
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- EDUCATE
- MyAV·¶ Knowledge Lab
- Department of Culture, Communication and Media
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- Read the Government Strategy: ''