Article "Digital education: ”education-with” / ”education-about” distinction and the teleological definition" now under Open Access Wed, 22 Jun 2022 09:13:48 GMT 2022-06-22T09:13:48Z <div>Despite being an object of multi-billion public policies and private sector initiatives, the term &rdquo;digital education&rdquo; seems to lack a clear, unambigous, lexicon-ready definition. A closer analysis reveals that in common parlance, the term is used to denote phenomena related to overlapping but distinct topics like &rdquo;technology&rdquo;, &rdquo;media&rdquo; or &rdquo;informatics&rdquo;. Such polysemy implies an overall lack of clarity which a public debate about education policies should rather avoid. For this reason, we propose to start sorting things out by defining the term &rdquo;digital education&rdquo; in terms of dichotomy of two subordinated concepts, which we label as &rdquo;education-about-digital&rdquo; and &rdquo;education-with-digital&rdquo;. Postulation of this dichotomy combined with analysis of "school's mission" as defined in the legal codices of Land Berlin naturally leads to &rdquo;teleological definition&rdquo; which delimits the concept of digital education in terms of its ideal human result.</div> Info