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Media as Catalysts

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Seen from ideological innovators, the integration of new media in education is a pernicious affair; first of all, as it seduces learners to escape from the traditional regime. Even more dominant is the fear that fancy multimodality prevents learners from mental imagination.

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    https://www.curriculum.nu/ Demonstrating the intended shift from compartmentalized subject curricula to the more inclusive priority of holistic human skills and competences.

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    https://dbias.eu/home/ EU project on the measures to make the young generation more resilient towards biased sources of information.

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Kommers, P. (2022). Media as Catalysts. In: Sources for a Better Education. Springer Texts in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88903-6_18

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