OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Teachers vs Tech?: The case for an ed tech revolution

This is a brilliantly conceived book. Why hasn't technology had any real impact on pupil achievement? Daisy Christodoulou suggests it's not about tech being ineffective, it's about us needing to understand learning better so that we can utilise the tech more smartly. Let's not outsource knowledge to technology, let's use tech to strengthen memory. Very well written, steeped in research and easy to read. Relevant whatever your role or level of experience in education.

Very well written in an accessible style but a bit thin when it comes to breadth of evidence. I accept that she's not writing an academic text book but felt that there could have been more to it, especially in terms of thinking about at all types of barriers to tech engagement by key stakeholders.

The book is not only useful and interesting but is attractive and with a font size that made it easy to read.

Fabulous book - can heartily recommend anything written by Daisy.

This is an interesting read to take you beyond some of the headlines about AI supplanting teachers or traditional educators in schools, schooling, education. It may be of primary interest to parents or teachers, given that it does focus, primarily, upon schooling, rather than, adult education. Not to suggest it should have a limited readership, not for a moment because surely there is content here which can be of value to anyone in any training department of a medium or larger size firm or service provider. Some of the "explosion" in e-learning, Zoom meeting training and mixed learning, as opposed to older patterns of teaching/presenting and passive pupil/learning/trainee, is, surely, prefigured in this book. Personally, I disliked some of the style of presentation, its just a matter of personal taste as the style and pace of writing is not bad, the spacing, use of headings, chapter structuring and even some of informatics/illustrations are also done well too. I just kind of felt that the books style was aiming at an aesthetic or demographic I may not be part of. I also gave this less of a star grade as I felt it could have taken account of some of Ivan Illich's ideas about deschooling society and tools of conviviality, which all predate a lot of social media and internet applications which actually make his ideas more feasible or practical than at the time he composed them. That said, this could be a niche concern of anyone who has read a lot about education and social policy/perspective, for the same reason I do not mention the lack of reference to anything resembling Pedagogy of The Oppressed. Definitely a good read for anyone who has considered home education, home schooling, life long learning and seen how countries outside the anglo-sphere have integrated technologies with teaching. Recommended.