Technology & Innovation - Issue 12

CLASSROOM How the latest tech developments are shaping students’ experiences of teaching and learning THE AGENDA: 6 THINK CRITICALLY The lessons your students will need if they’re to become smarter and savvier consumers of online content 10WATCHAND LEARN Lesson observations need an overhaul – so could AI be the key to making them better? 14 THE HUMANTOUCH Why AI teachers won’t be taking the register for a good while yet 17 FROMABSTRACTION TO REALITY Help your students become tech creators, rather than consumers by linking coding to real-life challenges 18MINDTHE BUNSEN BURNERS! Kit Betts-Masters presents his thoughts on what’s needed for a perfect practical science lesson 20WHERE TO NEXT? Tony Ryan weighs up the mixed recent fortunes and promising future of D&T as a subject 24 LINE BY LINE Roweena Warnakulasuriya discusses her approach to teaching tomorrow’s developers 5 teachwire.net C L A S S R O OM