Digital Technologies

What does the research tell us about Innovative Classroom Practice and Student Outcomes?

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Throughout New Zealand and the world teachers (and students) are developing new education practices in response to the opportunities that digital technologies offer. There is, a growing body of evidence to support the view that digital technologies have the potential to improve student outcomes and to enrich, if not transform, the learning experience of children (Underwood, 2009). Furthermore, as the definition of student outcomes broadens to include non-academic outcomes there is increasing evidence of the positive impact of digital technologies in areas such as motivation, engagement, efficacy and interaction (Wright, 2010).