https://lifelongdigital.org/2021/03/22/arrived-this-year-at-last-long-arrived-digital-technologies/
With the advent of digital technologies many of our traditional ways of learning and working are being replaced. This happens both outside and inside the classroom. It is clear that a new learning paradigm needs to be established. But how will this be achieved? The answer is that it will require not only the creation of the infrastructure to support learning but also to address the fundamental question of what is education and learning in the future.
This article focuses on how to make learning a part of everyday life in the digital age, drawing upon the contributions of teachers and researchers from around the world. The article is targeted towards learners (including parents and students), educators and curriculum designers, technology experts, researchers in learning sciences, and the decision-makers.
There are a variety of opinions on what digital-age education should look like. However there is a broad agreement that we must encourage the co-evolution between learning and the modern technology of communication. This means exploring new opportunities for radically different conceptions of education and for the establishment of innovative methods that can be supported by modern communication technology.
The fact that the majority of the uses of information technologies in education remain an “gift-wrapping” form (Fischer, 1998) is one of the major challenges. These technologies are integrated into existing frameworks, such as instructionism and fixed curriculum. They are also used as a supplement to decontextualized or uncontextualized, learning. A lot of comparative studies rely on an environment that is a face-to-face baseline. This limits the study to tasks or functions that can only be performed digitally.