2026-02-12
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Welcome to everybody in the room and online.
I'm Sonny Livingstone.
I'm from the Department of Media and Communications at LSE.
And I'm delighted to welcome you to this evening's hybrid event,
EdTech at the Crossroads of Pedagogy versus Profit.
Do please put your phones on silent because this is being recorded.
It'll be a podcast later.
And I'm going to make some introductory remarks,
and then I'm going to introduce our speakers that you see here.
So this event is being hosted by the Digital Futures for Children Centre at the Department of Media and Communications.
And with the Five Routes Foundation, we support an evidence base for advocacy.
We facilitate dialogue between academics and policymakers, and we seek to amplify children's voices.
And tonight is indicative of our approach.
We pose a problem, what's happening with ed tech in schools.
We ask a child's right to educate, a child's rights question, what is the right to education anyway?
We review the evidence and that's going to be our next report as well as what we talk about tonight.
And we consult children and we've consulted around 450 children over the last few months about what they think of the ed tech in their schools and in their classrooms.
And then we think about the policy implications and that's part of what we want to discuss with you here today to tell you about the research and to raise some of the questions.