Techknowledge for Schools
- 2016 Teachers’ attitude to the use of mobile technology in classroom – asks teachers how they feel about using technology to teach in class.
- 2016 Technology in education: a summary of our research – three infographic summaries of research highlights. 1, 2, 3
- 2016 Literature review of global use of mobile technology in education – updating our previous 2015 review the research demonstrates successful and less successful schemes.
- 2015 Internet Safety Report – key findings from research with over 7k students for Internet Safety Day 2015.
- 2015 Future Skills – explores how the daily use of technology prepares students for future employment. Based on a set of questions reflecting skills identified by the CBI as necessary for future employment, teachers rate the way in which using technology can build autonomy, independent thinking, resilience, knowledge of the wider world and an ability to communicate.
- 2015 How Children Use Mobile Devices at School and at Home – over 7k interviews with students at schools on our research panel looks at use of social media sites, the potential for distraction, propensity to be ‘always on’, and using their devices responsibly.
- 2015 Case Studies – 20 in-depth case studies in schools across the UK – our researchers spent time in each school, interviewing the leadership team, teachers, pupils, including film. Different models of technology use in schools are demonstrated.
- Longitudinal Schools
- FK&Y Cedars School of Excellence Profile and Case Study
- FK&Y Cramlington Learning Village Profile and Case Study
- FK&Y ESSA Academy Profile and Case Study
- FK&Y Honywood Profile and Case Study
- FK&Y Longfield Academy Profile and Case Study
- FK&Y Mounts Bay Academy Profile and Case Study
- FK&Y Wallace High Profile and Case Study
- Starting the Journey
- Recently Introduced
- FK&Y Carter Community School Profile and Case Study.pdf
- FK&Y Harrogate Grammar School Profile and Case Study.pdf
- FK&Y Hove Park School Profile and Case Study.pdf
- FK&Y Penwortham Priory Academy Profile and Case Study.pdf
- FK&Y Trentham High Profile and Case Study.pdf
- FK&Y UCL Academy Profile and Case Study.pdf
- FK&Y Writhlington Profile and Case Study.pdf
- 2015 Transforming Learning – report based on interview and ethnography – includes 4 films showing benefits and challenges – the research looks in depth at new pedagogical models of learning, including flipped learning, through using digital devices in teaching and learning.
- 2014 What advice would you give other people your age about staying safe online? Over 7,000 young people aged 11-18 provides a reassuring picture of young internet users, demonstrating that they are knowledgeable, responsible, caring and transparent.
- 2014 Young People’s Attitude Towards Gaming This report was conducted in schools on our research panel to find out how young people aged 11-18 respond to gaming, what games they are playing and attitude to playing games rated 18+.
- 2014 The Introduction of Nexus Tablets Google gifted 10,000 tablets to 16 schools in areas of deprivation. The evaluation over 9 months measures teacher attitude pre and post introduction. It finds schools needed a high level of support from Google and a commitment to use the tablets effectively. Simply giving tablets to schools is not enough.
- 2014 Do Young People Sometime Feel They Are Addicted to the Internet? This provides advice written by young people for young people.
- 2014 Revisiting Coding – teachers’ attitude to the introduction of coding on the curriculum sought before and after introduction.
- 2014 An Updated Literature Review on the Use of Tablets in Education discusses findings from recent studies, as well as the research limitations.
- 2014 The Use of Tablets in UK Schools – Stage 4 – FK&Y interviewed 671 schools. BBC Education correspondent Sean Coughlan wrote about the research.
- 2013 An evaluation study of 1:1 tablets in secondary schools – Stage 3 – results from a control group and evaluation of 9 schools using 1:1 tablets plus a literature review of the global use of tablets.
- 2013 From Introduction to the Longer Term Effects of One-to-One Learning – Stage 2 – an evaluation of five secondary schools that had chosen to give pupils one-to-one Tablets, carried out between September 2012 and April 2013. Methodology included qualitative and quantitative research.
- 2012 The First Three One-to-One Schools – Stage 1 carried out between September 2011 and July 2012 – includes a literature review, an evaluation of three schools in Belfast, Kent and Essex using 1:1 tablets, plus a control school in Essex with no 1:1 tablets plus two feeder primary schools.
