How can we ensure educational technology truly supports learning? This book offers a timely, evidence-rich guide for anyone navigating today's fast-changing EdTech landscape. Drawing on cutting-edge research, global case studies, and two decades of field experience, it exposes why so many technologies fail to deliver impact, and shows what it takes to change the system. Readers will discover practical tools such as the Five Es framework for evaluating EdTech, insights from the emerging EdTech 2.0 movement, and vivid examples of collaborations that bridge researchers, schools, policymakers, and developers. The chapters illuminate how to spot meaningful innovation, avoid common pitfalls, and champion tools that genuinely strengthen learning and wellbeing. Accessible, hopeful, and grounded in real-world practice, this is an indispensable guide for educators, school leaders, policymakers, EdTech designers, and parents seeking clarity in a confusing digital marketplace.

‘The world is flooded with educational technology ‘solutions’ full of promise but woefully short on impact. Huge amounts of money have been invested and attention squandered with little result. Thankfully, Natalia Kucirkova has offered a compelling rationale and framework for injecting high quality evidence throughout the process of developing and implementing EdTech. We should be heeding her call for action.’

David Dockterman - Harvard Graduate School of Education

‘Can Edtech design and deployment pivot from efficient knowledge transmission towards enabling learning communities? Policy and business prefer the former, but educational theory, evidence and children’s experiences urge the necessity of the latter. Natalia Kucikova succeeds admirably in convincing us this is possible, and in showing the way.’Sonia Livingstone

Sonia Livingstone - London School of Economics, and Digital Futures for Children centre