The impact of digital information and communication technologies on the school curriculum: an ongoing transformation

Authors

  • César Coll Department of Evolutionary Psychology and Education. University of Barcelona

Abstract

The article analyzes the changes that digital technologies of information and communication are bringing into the curriculum. So far, these rather modest amd less than expected changes are primarily the result of the incorporation of ICT into school education as learning content and methodological resources to promote learning and improve instruction. The ICT, however, have strongly penetrated 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 for the educational system to stay outside of this process of transformation for munch longer. The ICT are changing the ecology of learning, and this fact will oblige an in-depth revision of the school curriculum and education.

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Published

2019-07-28

Issue

No. 31 (2011): Winter 2011 ( 1st period)

Section

Educational Psychology and Counselling

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