Emma Whewell shares the findings of Alastair Snook’s study on primary teachers’ use of educational technology, and the opportunities and challenges it presented during the pandemic. The shift to alternative methods of instruction using digital technology has been a learning process for digital native teachers and digital immigrant teachers alike.

Emma Goto explores how the Philosophy for Children (P4C) pedagogical approach could be used in digital literacy and e-safety lessons.

This qualitative research study from the US explores the experiences of teachers in the spring semester of 2020 as they remotely instructed their students owing to COVID-19 campus closures. Analysis revealed teachers’ concerns for their students and their learning, the barriers presented owing to the disconnect between them and their students, and how their competencies changed as their time with remote instruction increased.

Bett 2022 is right around the corner, and we are very excited to welcome you back to ExCeL London this month on 23-25 March 2022.

Don’t forget to come and see TPEA members share their latest resarch into learning from lockdown followed by our popular Reseaerch Safaris. You can register

This year our popular research safari presents a tried-and-tested portfolio of online and hybrid educational technology tips and tools evaluated by international teacher education trainees.

Rhiannon Farrell is a teacher of English at a comprehensive secondary school in the West Midlands.  She is also a teaching and learning advisor and

Robert (Rob) Lambert is a Senior Lecturer and Course leader working in the Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology at The University of Northampton since

Bett is the global community for education technology: We spark ideas, create connections and accelerate trade, driving impact and improving outcomes for teachers and learners.

“ Would you like to host a Research Safari at BETT 2022? Dear Member, We are looking for researchers to present at BETT 2022 as part

Dr Julia Sargent from the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University introduces her recent TPEA journal article on students’ perceptions of democratic assessment practices through video narratives.

Computing teacher Matthew Chermside considers how we can promote and scaffold talk for learning in the computer science classroom.

On 3rd November Dr Elizabeth Hidson gave a talk at the Digital Technologies for Education Special Interest Group at the University of Northampton. Her presentation focused on in-service ICT teachers faced with the 2014 English National Curriculum shift that required the teaching of Computer Science and how their pedagogical knowledge was enhanced through shared lesson resources and professional communities of practice.

Dr Elias Said-Hung from the International University of La Rioja introduces a research project involving the development of a social media toolkit for use in higher education.

This Finnish study reports a practical experiment involving young pupils, their teachers and university students, named the Media Agent project. The purpose of the project was for the university students to teach the schoolchildren new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills, which they then would teach to other pupils and teachers at their own schools.

Dr Anna Wood from the University of Edinburgh outlines a paper recently published in the TPEA journal on the theme of lecture capture in higher education.

Paula Lehane from Dublin City University introduces a paper recently published in the TPEA journal comparing digital learning before and during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Professsors Shih-Hsien Yang and Hui-Chin Yeh share an introduction to their recently published article in the TPEA journal.