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Freeing teachers to innovate with ICT

Classroom ICT
By allowing teachers to innovate with technology, we can drive whole-system reform. Kathleen Stokes discusses Nesta’s work to help education design better ICT tools and practices and to make better use of existing technologies.

From its beginning, Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation, has been at the forefront of new ideas in education. This has ranged from the creation and spinning out of FutureLab, to working with the computer and video games industry in our report Next Gen, which persuaded government to put computer science and coding at the heart of the school curriculum.

With a deficit of innovation at the intersection of technology and education, our recent work has looked at how best we can improve learning in the digital age. 

Technologies have been used to transform our daily lives, but so far there has been little evidence of substantial success in improving educational outcomes. Many digital technologies have the potential to improve learning, but it all depends on how they are used.

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