Kahoot for teaching A-level sociology
Kahoot is an online quizzing platform which allows teachers to create multiple choice quizzes which can be played in-class by students, who […]
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Socrative for Teaching and Learning A-Level Sociology
Socrative is a real-time feedback learning-tool which allows teachers to quickly produce multiple choice, true/ false or open ended questions
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Using Quizlet for Teaching A-level Sociology
Quizlet is basically an online flashcard and quiz generator – you simply set up a discrete ‘study set’, for example,
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Problems with the increasing involvement of technology companies in education
There are four main problems of the increasing role of large technology companies in education, all of which stem from
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How Technology Companies Manipulate our Behaviour
Tech companies intentionally design features to make products addictive, causing psychological harm and reduced autonomy, according to former Google staffer Tristan Harris. Techniques harnessing the compulsive nature of variable rewards, used in gambling, are exploited. Tech pundits say the tech industry represents the ‘largest and most centralised form of attentional control in human history.’
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Problems with Educational Technology
Neil Selwyn is critical of the technologically driven de-schooling agenda advanced by the likes of Sugata Mitra (who did