The “hype and lure of digital education” has led to UK schools spending £1.4 billion in three years on technology but with little evidence that it has had tangible impact, research has claimed.
A report from Nesta, a charity promoting innovation, says that too often technologies are brought into schools without the necessary changes to teacher practice to support them.
Nesta is clear to emphasise that the £1.4 billion has not necessarily been wasted, but that money is being spent without clear best practice evidence of what works.
Figures show that increasing proportions of school budgets are being allocated to technology, but the result is that millions of pounds worth of ICT kit is “languishing unused or underused in school cupboards”, researchers say.
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