Are they smarter or more stupid? Where is education?
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- Juana M. Sáncho-Gil (ES) Universidad de Barcelona
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This paper is based on adults’ perplexity in front of the new contexts, situations and behaviours fostered by the development and application of digital information and communication technologies. To explore this issue, I start by discussing if the roles in the traditional relationships between children and parents, students and teachers are changing at a time when the first ones seem to know more than the latter. I argue this issue by noting how digital tools have not only transformed the world of information and communication but also the meaning and value of knowledge and learning. Then I put into question the apparently high technological knowledge of youth and introduce the fundamental role of educational institutions to meet the challenges of contemporary education. I get to the end by making some of these challenges explicit.
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