EducationHQ

1 week ago | educationhq.com | Grant Quarry

The rapid flooding of edtech products in classrooms worldwide has outpaced regulation and research, resulting in many of these tools being adopted without any understanding of their long-term educational or ethical impacts, an expert in the platformisation and datafication of education says.

1 week ago | educationhq.com | Sarah Duggan

She thinks of the circumstances under which she left. The faces of her Grade 6s appear, along with those of her colleagues she was never able to say goodbye to. To offer an explanation. To apologise. To say, ‘I’m sorry for letting you down’. ‘Teacher guilt’, is the term Lai describes, an insidious condition that she says plagues many educators, and often for long after they’ve quit the profession.

2 weeks ago | educationhq.com | Sarah Duggan

A kind of grim listlessness, a suffocating lethargy permeated her waking hours. She was angry at home. Usually comforting sensory moments, like enjoying a perfect cup of coffee, were devoid of pleasure. As a teacher with autism, Lai’s experience of burnout had reached the final stage. “I felt like there was nothing left, and I had given everything to everybody for a long time. I couldn’t go anywhere but up, is the honest answer,” she tells EducationHQ.

2 weeks ago | educationhq.com | Sarah Duggan

After many years plugging away with gamification, flashy screens with micro-rewards and high-energy learning activities in a bid to secure his students’ interest in learning, elementary school teacher Kevin Stinehart realised this approach was completely misguided. The irony was that students’ engagement wasn’t hinged on the actual learning material at hand, he says.

2 weeks ago | educationhq.com | Sarah Duggan

RMIT’s Miriam Reynoldson has flagged concern over the use of the term ‘AI literacy’, saying generative AI models do not work to deepen our skills of communication and ultimately drive a wedge between educators and learners. The learning design specialist says she’s frustrated that calls for embedding ‘AI literacy’ in education most often carry a bigger agenda. “…they’re often used as a way of selling the tools.