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Challenges of a digital society and response of Dutch universities. One programme, seven themes: Citizenship & Democracy, Responsible Data Science, Health & Well-Being Learning & Education, Work & Organisations, Digital Cities & Communities, Safety & Security

The Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) is an inter-disciplinary network of leading international researchers who are exploring the role and impact of analytics on teaching, learning, training and development. SoLAR has been active in organizing the International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK) and the Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI), launching multiple initiatives to support collaborative and open research around learning analytics, promoting the publication and dissemination of learning analytics research, and advising and consulting with state, provincial, and national governments.

Given the vast development of technological applications, education cannot ignore the use of technology in preparing students for participation in society. Technology use in education has become both a goal and a tool, implying that teachers need to be able to use technology as an effective tool in their teaching and students need to learn how to use technology appropriately in their day-to-day lives.

Computational Thinking (CT) is emerging as a key competence across all disciplines, professions and throughout society. It can be defined as combining problem solving and design to create useful solutions, informed by the possibilities that Computing offers

Het concept schoolexamenprogramma Technologie en Toepassing (T&T) is ontwikkeld voor de theoretische en gemengde leerweg van het vmbo. Het concept examenprogramma wordt geëvalueerd in pilots met een aantal scholen. Alleen de pilotscholen mogen T&T als schoolexamenvak aanbieden; zij hebben hiervoor ontheffing gekregen van het ministerie van OCW. Andere vmbo-scholen kunnen het concept schoolexamenvak in de pilotfase alleen als extra-curriculair vak aanbieden. Afhankelijk van het wetgevingstraject zal het examenprogramma op termijn formeel toegankelijk worden voor alle scholen met een gemengde en/of theoretische leerweg.

Computational Thinking (CT) is a problem solving process that includes a number of characteristics and dispositions. CT is essential to the development of computer applications, but it can also be used to support problem solving across all disciplines, including the humanities, math, and science. Students who learn CT across the curriculum can begin to see a relationship between academic subjects, as well as between life inside and outside of the classroom."

A Helsinki University researcher says Finland's current digital and 'phenomenon-based' learning methods used in schools may not be suitable for all students

We hope to contribute to the thriving field of AI ethics and social impact through original interdisciplinary research that also draws upon technical insights from our team, expertise from other disciplines, and the voices of people affected by the development of these new technologies. Our research themes reflect the key ethical challenges that we believe exist for us and the wider AI community.

Do today's youth have more opportunities than their parents? As they build their own social and digital networks, does that offer new routes to learning and friendship? How do they navigate the meaning of education in a digitally connected but fiercely competitive, highly individualized world? Based upon fieldwork at an ordinary London school, The Class examines young people's experiences of growing up and learning in a digital world. In this original and engaging study, Livingstone and Sefton-Green explore youth values, teenagers' perspectives on their futures, and their tactics for facing the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. The authors follow the students as they move across their different social worlds-in school, at home, and with their friends, engaging in a range of activities from video games to drama clubs and music lessons. By portraying the texture of the students' everyday lives, The Class seeks to understand how the structures of social class and cultural capital shape the development of personal interests, relationships and autonomy. Providing insights into how young people's social, digital, and learning networks enable or disempower them, Livingstone and Sefton-Green reveal that the experience of disconnections and blocked pathways is often more common than that of connections and new opportunities."