![]() In the following I will try to find out whether political investments in ICT are warranted by evaluations, in the wake of Corona, i.e., thirteen published evaluation reports published between April 2020 and February 2021. This, one might think, ought to provide a convincing empirical base, to answer a range of questions, that were more difficult to answer before, when the use of digital platforms was more sporadic, differed from school to school and from municipality to municipality. On the same day, in Denmark, practically the whole nations’ pupils and students, from first grade to university students, were subjected to a similar educational situation: taught virtually through Microsoft Teams or Zoom platforms. This, of course, is caused by the choice of schools and educational institutions to use their platforms to compensate for the inability to teach physically during lock-down periods.Ĭorona lockdown has been a gift for the learning sciences, in the sense that it created an ideal test situation over a longer period. ![]() Reports show that companies behind products like Microsoft Teams and Zoom have experienced remarkable growth rates the last couple of years. Especially one enigma has emerged: how self-conscious is “political” or “institutional” thinking really? Is there somewhere in the political sphere (at global levels, at EU-levels, or at national levels) a unifying consciousness (or just an intelligent database) that synthesizes the evaluations, the whitepapers, the strategies, the visions, and the reports for the benefit of future writers and researchers – or are the systems populated with groundhog-day writers, who start praising the potentials anew, every day? – Gastautor Jesper Balslev: research consultant and ph.d., Copenhagen School of Design and Technologyįor the last six years I have studied policy papers on the value, effects, and/or the potentials of digital learning technologies in education. ![]() Gastkommentar von Jesper Balslev: Is the current use of ICT in education in Denmark warranted by Corona-evaluations?
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