A new “Innovation Index” is aiming to help schools evaluate the impact that their ICT has on teaching and learning.
It has been developed after a report last year said that the “hype and lure of digital education” has led to UK schools spending
£1.4 billion in three years on technology with little evidence of a tangible impact on teaching or learning.
The Decoding Learning report, published by Nesta, a charity promoting innovation, said that in the last decade the “technology has been put above teaching, and excitement above evidence”, and that the focus must be on the learning activities and how students learn – not on the ICT or types of technology themselves.
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