Making Learning a Part of Life in the Digital Age
7 octobre 2023The digital revolution has brought about the replacement of a number of our traditional methods of working and learning. This is happening both in and within the classroom. It is clear that a new way of learning is needed to be developed. What can be done to achieve this? The answer is that it will require not only the creation of digital infrastructures to facilitate learning but also answering the fundamental question of what learning and education going to be in the near future.
This article discusses how to make learning a part of everyday life in the digital age, drawing inspiration from researchers and teachers all over the world. The article is targeted towards learners (including parents and students), educators, curriculum designers as well as technology experts researchers in learning sciences, and policymakers.
There are a variety of opinions about what learning in the digital age should be, there is an overall consensus that we need to encourage the co-evolution of learning and communication technologies of the future. This includes exploring possibilities for radical new concepts of learning as well as the development of innovative new practices that can be supported by the modern technology of communication.
One of the most difficult issues is that the most current applications of new information technologies for learning are still a form of « gift wrapping » (Fischer 1998). These technologies are used as an addition to existing frameworks such as instructionism fixed curriculum, memorization and decontextualized learning. Many comparative studies utilize an actual classroom setting as a baseline. This limits the study to tasks or functions that can only be obtained digitally.