Inside Education 419, Deirdre Hodson on Technology and Sustainability (22-6-21)

2021-06-22

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Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's podcast I speak to Deirdre Hodson who works in the European Commission’s department for Education, Youth, Sports and Culture in Brussels. She provides a European Union policy perspective on technology and sustainability in education. Among the topics we discuss are: How she came to work in the area of digital education policy and her studies in the area Ben Williamson Neil Selwyn How her studies contributed to her work as a policymaker How th...

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

On this week's podcast I speak to Deirdre Hodson who works in the European Commission’s department for Education, Youth, Sports and Culture in Brussels. She provides a European Union policy perspective on technology and sustainability in education. Among the topics we discuss are:

How she came to work in the area of digital education policy and her studies in the area
Ben Williamson
Neil Selwyn
How her studies contributed to her work as a policymaker
How the pandemic is likely to impact on policy and practice
The need for schools to have digital strategies
The importance of the school as a whole being the unit of change and of hearing the student voice
The difference between emergency remote teaching and online learning
How countries reaped the benefits of investment in digital resources in education during the pandemic
Asking what we can learn from remote teaching and learning as a result of the pandemic
Broadening the education infrastructure to include collaboration with libraries and museums
The origin, purpose and launch of the SELFIE diagnostic/planning tool she was involved in developing
How SELFIE has been used and a new SELFIE tool for teachers to be launched in October 2021.
Report on Artificial Intelligence in Education
Examples of interesting practices in digital education across Europe
An account of a visit to a school in Finland and the phenomenon-based learning and to one in Austria
Sustainability, digital technologies, accessibility and inclusion
Risks and threats of technology alongside opportunities (e.g. data protection; student and teacher agency)
Differences between aspects of a teacher’s job that are routine (e.g. marking) and those that are human (e.g. coaching and mentoring)
Neil Selwyn Should robots replace teachers?
Challenges of not being able to hold the regular Leaving Certificate examinations in 2020.
The value of learning languages
Erasmus and E-Twinning: Léargas
Neil Selwyn’s book Distrusting Educational Technology: Critical Questions for Changing Times