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Here’s how weak policies on remote education have let our teachers down

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The coronavirus pandemic has led to significant disruption to school education in England. Teachers have made a concerted effort to use digital technology and remote teaching and learning to lessen the impact of this disruption on their students.

However, thanks to a decade of unambitious government policy, many have faced an uphill struggle. A general lack of preparedness for digital technology in England has left many children without the tools they need to access and benefit from remote learning.

Our recent research shows that teachers have been hampered by weak policies surrounding technology supported learning, and by the research behind these policies. To unlock the educational potential of digital technologies in the future, teachers need support that focuses on innovation and practice.

[Read: How to inspire creativity from your remote workers]

A decade stood still

The importance of using digital technology in teaching, and some of its associated challenges, were established well over a decade ago.

However, the coalition government of 2010 brought in policies that increasingly neglected the role of digital technologies in education. It began with the closure of the British Educational and Communications Technology Agency in 2011.

This organization faced some justified criticism, including for its tendency towards uncritical adoption of educational technology. But it did play an important role, supporting schools in their attempts to acquire and integrate digital technologies in the classroom.

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Teachers develop their own methods for using digital technologies. SpeedKingz/Shutterstock

In 2013, the National Curriculum for England was reviewed. Changes included the end of the expectation, established in 1999, that the critical use of digital technologies in education was an important key skill, and that it should be supported both through the subject of information and communications technology (ICT) and in pupils’ use of ICT across the curriculum.

Past standards required trainee teachers to develop their knowledge and skills in ICT in their teaching practice and wider professional work. However, all reference to the use of digital technologies for teaching and learning were removed from the 2010 Teacher Standards which trainees need to demonstrate to gain Qualified Teacher Status in England.

These policies, as well as an era of real-term cuts in education funding, have left many schools’ access to digital technologies weakened. It is not surprising that many, though not all, have found the move to remote and digitally-supported learning during the coronavirus pandemic challenging.

Unlocking future potential

Research on the use of ICT in schools has an important role to play, involving teachers in identifying what works and what doesn’t. But the research used to inform government policy on ICT over the last decade has failed in this regard.

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), funded by the Department for Education, has produced research which only adds very high level, comparatively common-sense insights, such as that the use of technology should not be an end in itself.

Back in 2004 we already knew that effective teachers make their own critical judgments about how to use digital technologies. They do this by blending their knowledge about their subject, their knowledge of how learners understand it, and how the features of digital technologies relate to such knowledge. But a lack of support for teachers to hone these practices means that this knowledge is not passed on or developed.

The education sector has to constantly re-learn lessons about the unique challenges of integrating technologies into education. Different levels of access, as well as different attitudes towards or ways of using digital technology, can have an impact on the effectiveness of teaching and learning. But many trainee teachers are left to develop this understanding by chance.

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Teachers may develop innovative ways of using ICT which are not then improved or passed on. Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock

The Core Content Framework for Initial Teacher Training in England, which sets out the minimum entitlement for those in initial teacher education, perpetuates this shortcoming. It makes no reference to technology-supported learning.

In our research, we introduced the idea of “pedagogical provenance.” This means valuing teachers’ stories of how methods of teaching using digital technologies came to be used – like understanding the history of an object or artefact. This could include how video conferencing has been used to explore art exhibitions, or how text messaging among pupils can improve literacy and spelling.

Knowing the purpose and the context of how a particular teaching method or digital tool was introduced helps guide teachers’ future decisions about how to adapt them to their own classroom. But this kind of detail is so often absent.

For instance, a review of research on the use of tablet devices in education found that there was a lack of detailed explanations provided to teachers “as to how, or why, using tablets within certain activities can improve learning.”

Teachers need to be supported by policy and research to help them develop expert knowledge on the use of digital technologies. Failure to do so may simply mean re-learning the same lessons over and over again. To help teachers prepare for the unknown challenges ahead we must build on the lessons of the past.The Conversation

This article is republished from The Conversation by Keith Turvey, Principal Lecturer in Education, University of Brighton and Norbert Pachler, Professor of Education and Pro-Vice-Provost: Digital Education, UCL under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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