The Digital Civilizations Interviews

The Viewpoint Research Institute is one of the central places where unroll this education reflect , and join people like lan Kay, Mitchel Resnick, and also other digital world personalities like John Perry Barlow (EFF), Danny Hillis (metaweb, clovk of the long now), the biologist Richard Dawkins, and also artistes like Quincy Jones. Obviously, theses new education methods are often related to the low costs computer fabrication’s projects (PC for 100 $) But also the incorporation of ICT inside the education stands against many tensions: The implications being often discerned like threats for the educational institutions as much as for the hesitant users who still master badly the use of these technologies. Emerging moral and legal resistances relative to the property of knowledge questions, many tensions related to the increasing education development, like the commercial education, and facing education globalization in the name of cultural diversity. These evolutions pose different questions: can the ICT accelerate progress towards the education for all and during the whole life? Can it carry better the balance between the equity and the education? Can it reconcile the universality and the local specificity of the knowledge?