K-12 Education faces significant funding and staffing challenges on a global basis. There is a lack of teacher training (according to Futuresource’s Learning Outcomes research) and, as teachers are leaving the profession (retiring, or changing careers), it is becoming increasingly difficult to recruit new teachers, who often do not see the workload/remuneration balance as attractive.
ӏ AI remains at the forefront of discussions across the EdTech market. While it offers valuable solutions, the adoption of AI also brings forth a unique set of challenges that must be addressed for it not to have an adverse effect on educational equity.
ӏ IFPD can play a part in easing teachers’ workloads via local and/or external Cloud access to LDS and LMS content and the use of whiteboarding and one to many, or many to one screen mirroring. However, training is often required to optimise this, and according to Futuresource’s latest direct research with teachers, this training is not always available.