Technology & Innovation - Issue 11

DEVELOPMENTS How the latest technology advances and trends are shaping educational practice THE AGENDA: 10WEIGHING UPTHE BENEFITS As AI technology becomes ever more powerful, we should give students the tools they’ll need to greet its challenges and opportunities in a clear-eyed way, says Ben Garside 14 LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE TECHNICIANS It’s worth impressing upon students the extent to which technicians make the world go round, says Jamie Sloan 19 A CURRICULUM FORWHAT? The government’s wide-ranging Curriculum Review should embrace schools’ novel uses of new technologies and not be trapped by outdated assumptions, argues Meena Wood 20 LITERACY IN THE DIGITALAGE With reading and writing habits having changed so much over the past couple of decades, it may be necessary to reconsider our ideas of what ‘literacy’ actually means, observes David Voisin 22 A CRITICALMISSION Students’ interest in current affairs is arguably at an all-time high – which makes the task of teaching them how to think critically more pressing than ever, writes Nicky Cox 9 teachwire.net D E V E LO P M E N T S