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The paper will deal with the two most important challenges facing education today: the increasing globalisation and permeation of ICT of our society. To meet these two challenges eighteen Ministries of Education in Europe joined forces in 1997 to create a common Internet platform, called the European Schoolnet. The objectives were to find synergies between national initiatives, to promote the use of ICT in education and to facilitate co-operation between schools in Europe.
Now the time has come to ask not only what ICT can do for schools, but also what ICT does to schools? How does the influence of ICT on society change the role of the school and the teacher? Two scenarios will be outlined: 1. the diminishing school — a reduction of the schools and the role of the teacher and a growth in home schooling; 2. the expanding school — where the need for lifelong learning puts the school in the centre of the development and changes the role of the teacher to become a guide to learning in schools and companies.
To help to transform the second scenario into reality, the European Schoolnet must in the coming year focus its attention on four areas: collaboration, communities, content and commerce. These four “c’s” and their implication for the development of the European Schoolnet and the European schools using the Internet will be further elaborated in the paper.
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Hylén, J. (2001). European Schoolnet — bringing the world into the classroom. In: Taylor, H., Hogenbirk, P. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies in Education. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 58. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35403-3_15
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