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The latest news, analysis and advice on the use of technology in the classroom, including new trends, policy and best-practice tips and techniques
Friday
3rd Oct 2025
Educators told to listen to primary pupils鈥� views on AI
Children are 鈥榚xcited鈥� about AI but want policymakers to acknowledge their concerns about issues such as biased representation, hears a major event on the ethics of the technology in education
Labour seeks 鈥榗lear鈥� mobile phones ban in Scottish schools
Scottish ministers accused of 鈥榩assing the buck鈥� on mobile phones by putting the onus on headteachers to take a stance
Tuesday
30th Sep 2025
Digital wellbeing: the vital skill for 21st-century learners
IB chief Olli-Pekka Heinonen says governments around the world recognise that we must do more to protect young people from technological harms 鈥� and schools can help
Oak legal challenge set to go ahead
The judicial review will look into legal challenges to the formation of Oak National Academy as an arm鈥檚-length body of the Department for Education
Friday
26th Sep 2025
DfE should emphasise that Oak is 鈥榦ptional鈥�, review finds
Government also says that Oak National Academy鈥檚 creation as an arm鈥檚-length body has added a 鈥榙egree of risk and uncertainty鈥� to domestic edtech market
Pupils are confiding in AI chatbots - these are the warning signs
Young people are turning to AI for comfort and reassurance 鈥� and this poses some major safeguarding risks that schools need to guard against, says this academic