What role will digital technologies play in teaching and learning in the future?
Written By: Author(s): Emma Darcy
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When the country went into lockdown on 23rd March 2020, I can honestly say that I had never been busier. As Director of Technology for Learning for the Chiltern Learning Trust and on the Senior Leadership Team for Denbigh High School in Luton, my services had never been so suddenly in demand. I have long been a passionate advocate of the power of technology to support engagement and raise attainment and, under any other circumstances, the fact that all staff in all schools now had no choice but to immerse themselves in technology for learning and understand its potential might have been seen as a beneficial step. However, this was an international pandemic, people were dying in their tens of thousands and the last thing I felt was any sense of positivity. I identified fully with Ty Goddard, writing about educators in April and describing 'the fierce intensity of now' (Tes, 2020).
Now, eleven weeks on, I find myself looking back on the journey that has been undertaken since that firs
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