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Michel Desmurget: "The confinement shattered the utopia of distance education"

2021-02-08T19:34:25.003Z


FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE - Before the Covid crisis, digital pedagogies were touted as the future of the education system. The harsh realities experienced by pupils and students have shown how much this fashion was an illusion, moreover costly for public money, ...


Michel Desmurget, doctor in neurosciences, is research director at the National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm).

He has published a remarkable book,

La Fabrique du crétin digital

(Seuil, 2019).

The digitization of the school system constitutes, in the words of Mr. Blanquer, Minister of National Education,

"one of the major levers of the educational policy that we lead"

.

The approach is not new.

A few years ago, Ms. Vallaud-Belkacem also praised this

"lever"

whose development promised to ensure

"the reduction of educational, cultural and social inequalities, the fight against dropping out and demotivation, 'adaptation of teaching to the diversity and needs of each pupil… ”

Recently, confinement has confronted this kind of assertion with the test of reality.

During this period, screens were set up as an almost exclusive vector of the educational process.

It is difficult to imagine a better opportunity to finally establish, at

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Source: lefigaro

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