News & Updates
EdTech Strategy Lab - Empowering the Ecosystem Event Report
Over 130 EdTech leaders from 34 countries convened last week for a rich dialogue about the future of trust and evidence in EdTech.
We are thrilled to now share our latest report, summarising the outputs from the EdTech Strategy Lab: Empowering the Ecosystem event held on December 3rd and 4th at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris!
EmpowerED workshop in Austria
Together with our Member EdTech Austria, the EEA hosted a highly interactive EmpowerED workshop titled “Shaping Digitally Competent Schools” on 27 November 2024 in Vienna as a part of the Wiener Bildungsfestival.
Why Unplugging Isn’t the Answer: The Basic Skills Europe Cannot Ignore
The past few years have been nothing short of tumultuous for education. Across the globe, schools responded to lockdowns with what can only be described as a "shock digitalization." Amid this upheaval, we’ve seen worrying trends: declining literacy, numeracy, and science results in PISA assessments, a growing wave of mobile phone bans across Europe, and now the ICILS report, which shatters the myth that young people, simply because they’ve grown up with smartphones and the internet, automatically possess strong digital skills. They do not.