Indefinite “Coup” of Digital Education and Certainty of Reality

DOI

10.2991/icpcs-19.2019.3How to use a DOI?

Keywords

definiteness, uncertainty, formal, non-formal, education, digitization of reality, tasks, control, compatibility, exclusion

Abstract

The authors continue the global discussion on the new tasks of learning and education management. The main question of the discussion: “How to prepare the next generation for the uncertainty of what is happening in the digital world, the labor market and social systems of global change?” The exponential growth of technology is causing global social change. Our future will be filled with tremendous opportunities, but it will also become a world of great uncertainty. High rates of innovation constantly “destroy today's reality” and create the uncertainty of the present and future. Therefore, it is necessary to reflect on the skills and capabilities that are important in conditions of extreme uncertainty. Based on their own experience of interacting with students of the “digital generation”, the authors propose several areas of pedagogical activity on the eve of the “digital world”: the formation of creative thinking, the development of entrepreneurship and enterprise, the development of teamwork skills, the consideration of ethical issues, the development of interdisciplinary education. Perhaps metaphorical thinking in areas of knowledge that seem to be not directly related to digitalization will help to understand future changes in the digital world. Much of the discussion about how to teach the digital world seems too simplistic. In particular, the value of distance learning is exaggerated. The creation of an educational laboratory environment seems more promising. The most important argument in favor of changing the approach to education in the face of uncertainty is the expectations of the informality of the youth itself.

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© 2019, 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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AU  - Elena Merzon
AU  - Oscar Raif-Riabov
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