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This European Parliament workshop report examines how schools and teacher education can respond to the digital transformation of work, communication, and learning. Its background papers and presentations note a persistent gap between young people’s extensive technology use and schools’ limited adoption of pedagogically meaningful digital practices.
Access alone does not produce digital competence, creativity, collaboration, or critical information use. Lonka and the Mind the Gap research group connect digital-age schooling with active knowledge construction, engaging learning environments, socio-digital participation, wellbeing, and twenty-first-century competences. Other contributions discuss teacher preparation, infrastructure, school leadership, virtual communities, and policy conditions across Europe. The report highlights both opportunities—personalization, communication, new representations, collaboration, and broader access—and risks such as distraction, unequal participation, shallow use, and unsupported teachers. It argues that effective change requires curriculum, assessment, professional learning, organizational culture, and technology to develop together.
Policymakers should support experimentation and research-informed scaling while preserving educational purposes. Digital tools become innovative only when teachers and learners use them to transform activity, not when conventional instruction is simply moved onto a screen.
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