Digital Revolution and Education

Digital Revolution and Education

Thinking through digitisation before digital control

The experience of the Corona crisis has led to the ‘Digital School Transformation Offensive’ to make sure the young generation is fit for the digital society. So, does this mean distance learning on a long-term basis, computer science as a compulsory subject? The Ministry of Education is offering to spend five billion Euros on computers under the slogan: ‘Multiplication tables and ABC only with a PC’. No more chalk on blackboards! But would you really be ready for the consequences of digitisation just by being able to use its media effectively? Is someone who can program apps armed to deal with hate speech and the emotionalisation of the discussion? This book looks at the ‘digital citizen’ in a civil society sense. Fit for the future is more about being capable of criticism than being functionally operational. What we need is more education, not so much ‘by means
of’ digital media but rather ‘about’ it and also ‘against’ it.