On 17 June we attended the European Education Technology Network (EETN) virtual EXPO which is a network that brings together researchers, innovators, experts, professors, and start-ups, fostering evidence-based, quality EdTech entrepreneurship in Europe and beyond. The event took place on the gather.town platform and we had a virtual booth which displayed our online resources relating … Continue reading iRead @ EETN Virtual EXPO
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iRead presents work at British Dyslexia Association Conference 2021
Last month members of the UCL team presented work from iRead at the virtual British Dyslexia Association conference. This event took place on 20-21 May and is a venue for leading experts on dyslexia and dyscalculia to share their work with hundreds of researchers and professionals from around the world. Dr Mina Vasalou led the … Continue reading iRead presents work at British Dyslexia Association Conference 2021
How to best support children’s participation in research? Considerations, strategies, and resources for ethics and consent
By Laura Benton (UCL Knowledge Lab) Next month several (current and former) members of the UCL iRead team (Laura Benton, Minna Nygren and Seray Ibrahim) are organising a virtual workshop funded by theUCL Researcher-Led Initiative scheme and themed on the ethics and creative practice in seeking children's consent in research. The workshop includes a keynote presentation from … Continue reading How to best support children’s participation in research? Considerations, strategies, and resources for ethics and consent
Evaluation with students
Leona Bunting, University of Gothenburg When the teachers said that they were probably not going to use Navigo anymore, we went to the schools and handed out the questionnaires to the students. Most students took the task quite seriously and deliberated over their answers. A first read of the students’ answers to the questions informed us … Continue reading Evaluation with students
“You’re a wizard reader, Harry.” Designing a Tableau Dashboard for teachers to track children’s reading progress in Navigo.
by Andrea Gauthier Learning to read is challenging, even for witches and wizards. And it’s even more challenging when those witches and wizards can’t attend Hogwarts in person and must learn to read in an online, home-schooling context with limited interaction with their teachers. (For the purposes of this blog, let’s ignore the fact children … Continue reading “You’re a wizard reader, Harry.” Designing a Tableau Dashboard for teachers to track children’s reading progress in Navigo.
End of Project Special Event: Children’s learning in digital games – The theory and the practice
After 4.5 years of hard work, memorable moments and exciting discoveries the iRead project will shortly be coming to an end on 30 June. In advance of our final newsletter we wanted to share with you the details of an upcoming special online event hosted by the UCL team and Learnus which will reflect on … Continue reading End of Project Special Event: Children’s learning in digital games – The theory and the practice
Can iRead’s algorithm help learners to read better than the teacher?
Roger Gilabert Guerrero and Judit Serra Technology has been increasingly used for educational purposes. Nowadays, schools are equipped with diverse technological devices, such as computers, tablets, digital panels, educative robots… Teachers find themselves struggling to incorporate them in their lessons and seek to take advantage of the alleged technological perks: motivating students, personalisation and learning … Continue reading Can iRead’s algorithm help learners to read better than the teacher?
News from Greece: Playing Navigo at school again, and the importance of dissemination
Theophano Christou Homeschooling has just finished, and students went back to school. Students in most schools used the apps at home, and they were pleased about it! We helped them by talking on the phone with them, their parents, or teachers. Researchers provided help to teachers by assigning games! Use of iRead at home Going … Continue reading News from Greece: Playing Navigo at school again, and the importance of dissemination
Collaboration Between the European Language Grid and iRead
Last week we sat down with Mark Breuker from EDIA, who is a specialist in language technologies for education. Mark's work has been an integral part of the iRead project - he has collaborated with the project through developing models with which to classify texts based on their difficulty. Thanks for speaking with us today, … Continue reading Collaboration Between the European Language Grid and iRead
Using social media to recruit schools
Leona Bunting, University of Gothenburg As spring term started here in Sweden, we needed to recruit some new schools for the evaluation. Most of the schools we had begun the evaluation with had already had the iRead apps for a year and were ready to return the tablets. But how to go about the recruiting … Continue reading Using social media to recruit schools
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