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Before March 2020, home schooling was not very common – but by now the majority of UK pupils have experienced some sort of home learning and all the challenges it brings by Education Technology Staff.
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We’ve welcomed the return of the physical classroom, but digitisation and computer-based learning has demonstrated some advantages and efficiencies that means that digital and remote learning is here to stay.
This creates an unequal situation between students who have the tools to be productive when not at school and those who don’t. Digital inequality is now a critical contribution towards economic and social division. How would a student be able to participate effectively in remote learning without online access?
During the COVID-19 lockdowns, schools were required to deploy whatever technology was available without considering the wider ramifications of unfettered access to the internet by their students...
ContactOnline child abuse continues to grow at an alarming rate; the UK’s child abuse image database holds 17m unique images, and it’s growing by 500,000 every two months. Many popular sites are now encrypting their content end-to-end, meaning the situation could get significantly worse.
More than 200,000 children met up with a stranger after only meeting them online, according to the Office for National Statistics in the year ending March 2020 in England and Wales. Although the research pre-dates the COVID pandemic, researchers warned that the numbers for the year ending March 2021 are expected to be higher because children have spent much of the last year indoors.
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