The impact of digital information technologies on the school curriculum: an ongoing transformation*
Abstract
The article analyses the changes that digital technologies of information and communication are bringing into the curriculum. So far, these changes, actually more modest than expected, are primarily the result of the incorporation of ICT to school education as learning content and methodological resources to promote learning and improve instruction. ICT, however, have strongly penetrated into virtually all spheres of human activity, transforming the social and cultural practices and enabling the emergence of new contexts of development, socialization and training that provide new and unprecedented opportunities for learning. It is impossible that education could stay outside of this process of transformation for a long time. ICT are changing the ecology of learning, which will oblige to review in depth the school curriculum and education, rather in a short than in a medium term.
* [The original of this article was published in Catalan in the magazine Àmbits de Psicopedagogia núm 31, winter 2011]
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