An Ed-Tech Tragedy? | UNESCO
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed education from schools to educational technologies at a pace and scale with no historical precedent. For hundreds of millions of students formal learning became fully dependent on technology – whether internet-connected digital devices, televisions or radios.
An Ed-Tech Tragedy? examines the numerous adverse and unintended consequences of the shift to ed-tech. It documents how technology-first solutions left a global majority of learners behind and details the many ways education was diminished even when technology was available and worked as intended.
In unpacking what went wrong, the book extracts lessons and recommendations to ensure that technology facilitates, rather than subverts, efforts to ensure the universal provision of inclusive, equitable and human-centred public education.
An Ed-Tech Tragedy? tells the story of how thousands of schools, pupils, teachers and parents worldwide were suddenly thrust into predominantly technology-based education due as a consequence of the COVID-19 virus that was sweeping the globe.
