THE SCHOOL AROUND THE CORNER IN THE TIME OF DIGITISATION
Authors:
Mike Douse & Philip M. Uys
Abstract:
This article investigates the forthcoming and fundamental transformation of education in response to and enabled by, Digitisation. The world, countries within it, institutions in and across those countries, and thus people’s lives, are being – and will, exponentially and unpredictably, continue to be – dramatically transformed by contemporary and upcoming technology. However, the piecemeal application of ICT to improve educational practices, although sometimes creative (and often inordinately expensive), is an inadequate and obsolete response. With Digitisation, a fresh era has arrived, making feasible and vital utterly fresh forms of communal and participative learning, supported by convivial pedagogies, learner ownership and international bonding. The school around the corner becomes an integral, fully networked and inter-connected element within the one Global School, and this affordably accessible universal institution gives impetus to optimal, practical, equitable and humane ways forward. Consequences of this inexpensive and inevitable educational revolution are explored and some favoured ways forward are delineated