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Schools in an evolving digital environment: Digital renewal and its maturity

https://doi.org/10.32517/0234-0453-2021-36-7-5-28

Abstract

Evolving digital technologies are infiltrating schools wave after wave. The changes taking place are viewed as the schools’ digital renewal process (SDRP). The SDRP is complex (multidimensional). It includes changes in the educational environment (physical and virtual), the educational process, and the way the school operates. The SDRP goes uneven, with individual schools at different stages. One-time observation of the SDRP allows you to fix its current state (statics). The longitudinal observations allows you to see changes in the schools’ digital renewal (kinematics). The connection of the observed changes with the impact on the general education system makes it possible to discuss the development of digital renewal under the influence of individual control actions (dynamics). The stages of penetration of digital technologies into the work of the school: computerization, early and mature informatization, digital transformation (transition to the “Smart School”) can be considered as the stages of maturity of the SDRP. The article discusses a framework for describing the processes of digital renewal of schools in an evolving digital environment and an assessment of the SDRP’s maturity.

About the Authors

А. Yu. Uvarov
The Federal Research Centre “Computer Science and Control” of the Russian Academy of Sciences; National Research University Higher School of Economics
Russian Federation

 Alexander Yu. Uvarov, Doctor of Sciences (Education), Professor; Head of the Educational Informatics Department, Institute of Cybernetics and Educational Computing, Professor at the Department of Educational Programs 

Moscow



V. V. Vikhrev
The Federal Research Centre “Computer Science and Control” of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation

 Vladimir V. Vikhrev, Research Fellow, Institute of Cybernetics and Educational Computing

Moscow 



G. М. Vodopian
School 550
Russian Federation

 Gregory M. Vodopian, Vice Principal,

Saint Petersburg 



I. V. Dvoretskaya
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Russian Federation

 Irina V. Dvoretskaya, Research Fellow at the Laboratory for Digital Transformation of Education

Moscow 



E. Coceac
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Russian Federation

 Eren Coceac, Research Assistant, Institute of Education

Moscow 



I. Levin
School of Education, Tel Aviv University
Israel

 Ilya Levin, Ph.D. (Computer Engineering), Professor, Department of Mathematics

Tel Aviv University



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Uvarov А.Yu., Vikhrev V.V., Vodopian G.М., Dvoretskaya I.V., Coceac E., Levin I. Schools in an evolving digital environment: Digital renewal and its maturity. Informatics and education. 2021;(7):5-28. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.32517/0234-0453-2021-36-7-5-28

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