This document discusses international perspectives on using information and communication technologies (ICT) in education. It outlines the goals of critically analyzing ICT trends across countries, discovering good practices, and proposing solutions to future challenges. It describes three functions of ICT in education: as a medium for teaching and learning, as a tool to transform knowledge, and as the object of learning to develop students' digital competencies. Various views for analyzing ICT in education systems are presented, including timelines, relationships between components, consequences, and systemic perspectives. Countries' approaches to ICT in education are meant to prepare students for future information, knowledge, learning or sustainable societies.
14. Goals of ICT in Education: preparing towards
what society?
• Information society - a society where the creation, distribution, use, integration
and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural
activity.
• ICT in Education to create the Information Society - in which knowledge and expertise form
part of the culture and also the key factor in production (Finland 2000)
• Europe Digital Agenda 2020:
The digital agenda for Europe will help Europe’s citizens and businesses to get the most out
of digital technologies
• Knowledge Society - Knowledge is a commodity to be traded for economic
prosperity.
• Knowledge-based societies societies are well educated, and therefore rely on
the knowledge of their citizens to drive the innovation, entrepreneurship and
dynamism of that society's economy.