Cognitive Offload: How to Keep Students’ Critical Thinking & Engagement with Digital Education Lead for University of Birmingham Dubai, Dare Pitan - S2E34

As with all new EdTech, we need to consider two things: its impact in the classroom, and its impact on students’ brains - for better, and for worse… As this week’s guest on EdTech Unwrapped warns, digital tools are able to create a sense of ‘cognitive offload’ which switches off students’ critical thought processes. Dare Pitan is the Digital Education Lead at the University of Birmingham Dubai, and this week he takes us through how students and educators are shaping a strategy which enhances ...