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The Department for Education strategy aims to help schools improve and increase their use of EdTech in teaching and learning, as well as in practical ways to ease teacher workload, and to promote the effective development of EdTech by innovators.

Launching the strategy at the Schools and Academies Show 2019 in London, Damian Hinds, the Secretary of State for Education, said that EdTech was one of the 鈥渟ingle most important elements in the educational arsenal鈥�. But it also presented the sector with unique challenges, because it was often seen to increase, as well as decrease, teacher workload.

Mr Hinds said education needed to embrace technology the way other sectors had, or it risked being left behind, but it was also important for EdTech developers to 鈥渃ome up with more precisely engineered solutions for the education sector鈥�.

The EDUCATE programme features in the strategy document under the chapter on 鈥楧eveloping a Dynamic EdTech Business Sector鈥�, and outlines its work and unique focus on evidence-based EdTech development.

Dr Alison Clark-Wilson, UCL EDUCATE鈥檚 Principal Research Lead, said: 鈥淲e welcome the government鈥檚 commitment to ensuring a pipeline of innovation and encouraging scale-up of proven products and services.

鈥淥ur programme aims to support some of the most imaginative and creative young companies to do just this, by helping them to think through how to gather the evidence that their products are working whilst they build them.

鈥淐onsequently, the proposed test-bed schools and colleges mentioned in the strategy are just what we need to enable this participatory research to take place, which will better ensure that the needs of teachers, lecturers, parents and of course, learners, are met.鈥�

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• EDUCATE
• UCL Knowledge Lab
• Department of Culture, Communication and Media
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