Summit of Education

Now playing: Shaping education technology for future learners - Geoff Stead

(16 Sep 2019, 32:17)

How learning and digitalisation can come together in order to solve problems for future learners.

Now playing: Is education ready for AI? - Rose Luckin

(16 Sep 2019, 33:23)

The rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning means educators need to focus on helping learners outwit the robots.

Now playing: How can a focus on pedagogy improve the impact of technology for learners?

(16 Sep 2019, 22:34)

Lynda Bramwell, Liz Duncombe and Andrew Field of Cambridge Assessment International Education provide an overview of their summit session on how a focus on teaching can improve the impact of technology for learners.

Now playing: Using technology to ensure curriculum coherence

(16 Sep 2019, 17:59)

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In this podcast based on their Summit of Education afternoon session, Nicky Rushton and Darren Macey of Cambridge Maths discuss how new technologies have the potential to transform the delivery of a subject like mathematics in classrooms.

Now playing: Preparing for the future: the importance of the first year in school

(16 Sep 2019, 07:50)

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At the Summit of Education, Kate Bailey of CEM and Lydia Cuddy-Gibbs of ARK explored the importance of children’s first year at school for their future progress. In this podcast Kate Bailey explains how teachers and policy-makers can support young children during this phase of their development.

Now playing: Using technology to improve feedback in the teaching and learning process

(16 Sep 2019, 34:42)

What role can technology play in learning and when and how does it need to be restricted? Examples from Cambridge International, Cambridge English and OCR

Now playing: Cambridge Assessment archives: Technological challenges from our past

(16 Sep 2019, 06:59)

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As part of the Cambridge Assessment Summit of Education, Group Archivist Gillian Cooke led a breakout session looking back at the technology Cambridge Assessment used in the 19th and 20th centuries. Here she explains how the group has continually embraced innovation. Cambridge Assessment has a 160-year legacy but without technology we couldn’t have started!