Using digital technology to improve learning: guidance report

This guidance report aims to help schools consider how they can use digital technology to improve pupils’ learning. In addition to providing an overarching framework for considering how technology is best used in the classroom, this report has been structured around some of the key elements of effective teaching: explanations and modelling; pupil practice; assessment and feedback. Alongside the importance of pedagogy, this report’s second overarching message is about the importance of implementation. Poor implementation is a key reason that digital technology fails to meet its potential to improve learning. As a consequence, this guidance draws not just on the academic literature exploring the impact of technology, but also on the wider evidence about implementation and effective teaching practices more broadly.