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Social and Pedagogical Implications of Digital Media / Društvene i pedagoške implikacije digitalnih medija

Education will undergo massive paradigm shifts we can only speculate. This is a revolutionary era of quantum advances in technologies, in a world of constant and unrelenting change, where new possibilities arise before the implications of their predecessors are digested. We know that school institutions must change to accommodate diverse individual and social needs. Many are already making curriculum, teaching and learning adaptations. Living in a world of constant change is challenging, and predicting the nature of the coming changes brought about by the accelerating pace of technology advances, the accompanying knowledge explosion. The focus of the future's research agenda should remain on children and youth, teaching, the learners and educators, while trying to set a strategy of harnessing the power of multimedia in this endeavor. Education must come to grips with this (r)evolution quickly, design and enhance new learning experiences, while emphasising more process skills than ever before. A mindset that encompasses creativity and subsequent innovation will be required if we are to explore and harness the offered potential. Futurists and educational reformers argue that new schools are needed for a new age, that the social power of technology will force us to redefine education, a task that will require a different mindset than educators have had in the past.

technology, pedagogical perspective, didactics, future of education

Rad je objavljen u Zborniku znanstvenih radova s Međunarodne znanstvene konferencije Globalne i lokalne perspektive pedagogije