Digital school and life project. The central question for a new democratic school

Abstract

The society in which we live is pervaded by digital innovations that have profoundly changed styles of living, communicating, socializing, working and above all learning. The vision of education in the digital age represents a shared path of cultural, organizational, social and institutional innovation that wants to give new energy democratic processes, new connections, new capacities for the democratic school. In this essay, the author, starting from the deep link between technology, education and teaching, seeks to define a vision of “digital” as an enabling tool and theory to change the school and society, focusing on the role that can have the new digital technologies in the school environment for the creation of a new democratic project. A school 3.0 can play a fundamental role as a laboratory for a new democracy in which more and more the skills of “digital citizenship” are essential to face an increasingly smart society.