UNESCO – “A new book about experiences with educational technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic and the implications for the future of learning. 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. This book 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, An ed-tech tragedy? 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? Educational technologies and school closures in the time of COVID-19 – UNESCO [6232] West, Mark [author] [27] ISBN : 978-92-3-100611-1 652 pages, 2023. Licence type : CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO [12047]