Can you read this text without a hitch? Many children worldwide cannot say the same. In this episode of the Oxford Brookes Publishing podcast, distance-learning Master’s student Stephen Flynn explores findings from UNESCO’s “2023 Global Education Monitoring Report, Technology in education: A tool on whose terms?” Together with colleague and researcher Chandni Jain, he discusses a variety of topics and their implications for improving children’s literacy levels, includingOpen Educational Resources, concerns for representation and linguistic inclusion, and community libraries, citing one suchinitiativein Kenya that brings students, caregivers and teachers together to create a culture of reading.