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(2019). What’s next for Ed-Tech? Critical hopes and concerns for the 2020s. Learning, Media and Technology. Ahead of Print. 
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Ana Cristina Pratas's insight:
"WHAT TRIGGERS THIS NEW PEDAGOGY?Changes in society, student expectations, and technology are motivating university and college faculty and instructors to rethink pedagogy and teaching methods. New Demands of a Knowledge-Based SocietyThere are three separate factors at work in the knowledge-based society. The first is the continuing development of new knowledge, making it difficult to compress all students need to know within the limited time span of a post-secondary program or course. This means helping students to manage knowledge - how to find, analyze, evaluate, and apply knowledge as it constantly shifts and grows. The second factor is the increased emphasis on applying knowledge to meet the demands of 21st century society, using skills such as critical thinking, independent learning, the use of relevant information technology, software, and data within a discipline, and entrepreneurialism. The development of such skills requires active learning in rich and complex environments, with plenty of opportunities to develop, apply, assess and practice such skills. Thirdly, it means educating students with the skills to manage their own learning throughout life, so they can continue to learn after graduation. New Student ExpectationsEven the most idealistic students expect to find good jobs after several years of study, jobs where they can apply their learning and earn a reasonable income. This is especially true as tuition and other educational costs increase. Students expect to be actively engaged in and see the relevance of their learning to the real world. Today's students grew up in a world where technology is a natural part of their environment. Their expectation is that technology is used whenever appropriate to help them learn, develop essential informational and technological literacy skills, and master the fluency necessary in their specific subject domain. New TechnologiesContinuing advances in digital technologies, social media, and mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, give the end user, the student, much more control over access to and the creation and sharing of knowledge. This empowers students, and faculty and instructors are finding ways to leverage this enhanced student control to increase their motivation and content relevance."
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"In many ways, the passing of another decade is nothing remarkable. The world does not transform periodically every ten years. Nevertheless, the fact that the 2020s are now upon us provides good reason to reflect on how education (and wider society) is changing. This special issue of Learning Media & Technology takes the new decade as a prompt to look forward to the near-future. It asks what issues relating to education, media and technology might be at the forefront of our minds when 2030 comes around? More importantly, it calls us to consider how we should be preparing ourselves in the meantime.
Regardless of what the future holds, we are undeniably in the midst of what is a very distinct (and perhaps even unusual) time. Popularism and political instability is gaining hold in all manner of alarming ways. It is now regularly claimed that globalisation is dead, that we are living in a post-digital age, and that we are on the cusp of an ‘industrial revolution 4.0’. Even if we discount these headline claims as hyperbole, it is clear that digital technologies are a significant factor in the ways in which our day-to-day lives are now distinctly different than they were 20 years ago. It makes sense then to expect that digital technologies will continue to be a significant part of how our future is shaped as the nature of the world’s economies, politics, cultures, and societies steadily (and often unpredictably) shift."