Protecting Minors in the Digital Age

Steve Jobs didn’t let his kids use the iPad at home. Bill Gates held off on giving his children phones until they turned 14. Both enforced strict screen time rules, not because they were anti-tech, but because they understood its impact. They knew that boundaries protect creativity, focus, and human connection. This month, the European […]

Emerging Tech for TransformativE Education

In an era defined by rapid technological breakthroughs, the education sector has become a prime beneficiary—and, indeed, a major testing ground—for emerging innovations. From immersive simulations that replace dusty textbooks to machine learning tools that adapt to individual learner abilities, these technological advancements are reshaping not only how we learn, but also why we learn. […]

A Career Transition in EdTech: Leveraging DigCompEdu for Success

Lately, in part due to the Covid pandemic, the Educational Technology (EdTech) sector is experiencing rapid growth, with significant increases in investments, market size, and demand for innovative products and services. The EdTech sector is attracting investments and expanding its reach, offering opportunities for businesses and investors. In this rapidly evolving landscape of EdTech, individuals […]

Automation, Employment, Status

Recently I have attended a conference where as usual, I was sitting down at the back of a seminar room. The speaker was focusing on emerging trends in educational technology where it was evident that he was summarising the Horizon report; a report which is of great interest to educators and policy makers as it […]

Collaboration: Are We Sure?

Collaboration as a much needed 21st competence Collaboration is one of competences which 21st century skills advocates put forward. This may be considered by policy makers, theorists and others as an obvious competence which learners should possess. It can be argued that to thrive in today’s society, citizens need to collaborate with other citizens, with […]

Digital Literacy across the Curriculum

These days, everyone agrees that to be an active participating citizen one needs to be digitally competent. Thus Digital Literacy is a requirement which educational stakeholders cannot continue turning a blind eye upon. We as educators must foster and encourage Digital Literacy in our classrooms (and management must support in the broader curriculum). 21st century […]

Crowd funding, Crowd sourcing …Crowd learning!

The wisdom garnered collectively is powerful. How can educational settings use such power for learning? Isn’t this encapsulated in the 21st century skills? Few years back I coordinated a Comenius project with various European schools. As part of the work done. a cohort of around 180 students (whole Form 1 population) worked on a research […]

Online Educator – boundaries or no boundaries?

Last November, the first edition of the National Digital Literacy conference was successfully organised. Representatives from various entities held various presentations helping participants focus on this year’s theme; Positive usage of internet. A source of debate was the boundary which an educator should set for himself when online. During the conference, our key speaker, Mr […]

Designing and developing accessible e-learning experiences

I had the opportunity to read Seale’s ‘ Designing and developing accessible e-learning experiences: the learning technologist’s perspective. Seale (2006) hints that various authors make the ‘assumption that it is learning technologists who will respond’ and who are mainly responsible for accessibility. Although this might be true, it is important that such a debate does […]