The “Digital Divide” as a Feature of the Modern Educational Process: Ambivalent Assessments

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10.2991/assehr.k.201128.001How to use a DOI?

Keywords

digitalization of the educational process, “digital divide”, “digital skills”, “digital optimists”, “digital skeptics”, risks of digital education

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the “digital divide”, which is clearly manifested in the educational process. Modern education has gone the way of digitalization, which has become particularly evident in the current conditions of the pandemic. The focus is on the problem of “digital skills”, which are necessary in modern educational practices and the degree of development of which indicates digital inequality. The main goal is to compare estimates of the “digital divide”, which has both positive and negative connotations. The arguments of digital optimists and digital pessimists are considered. The methodological basis is the principle of socio-cultural determination. It is specified by a three-component model of micro-, meso- and macro-perspectives. At the micro level, the effect of education is included. At the mesoscale, scientists look at the home context. At the macro level, the social context is included. The positions of digital optimists and digital pessimists are analyzed on the basis of modern scientific research. The author shows that “digital optimists” believe that traditional knowledge is “dead knowledge”. Digitalization is a completely new practice for the human central nervous system, having a stimulating effect. On the contrary, digital pessimists discover new areas of risk by detecting numerous cognitive deformities caused by digitalization. It is concluded that digital determination creates new risk areas in the educational process. It gives rise to a new type of rationality aimed at using ready-made information resources, borrowing and compiling information, and, ultimately, causes to a gap between conceptual and digital thinking.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Tatiana Leshkevich
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/29
TI  - The “Digital Divide” as a Feature of the Modern Educational Process: Ambivalent Assessments
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education Studies: Experience and Innovation (ICESEI 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1
EP  - 4
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201128.001
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201128.001
ID  - Leshkevich2020
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