Eibo digitalFor children the computer (and the Internet) becomes more and more something natural, at home as well as at school. 'This is the first generation born with a mouse in their hands and a computer screen as their window on the world. Tweens understood icons before they could read. They now surf the Net with an ease and speed that belongs only to those who are at home in cyberspace.' The arrival of the computer is comparable to the advent of the art of printing (says Prof. Dr. Wim Veen, TU Delft). It already turns out that children run ahead of their parents and teachers in their knowledge of the computer and the Internet. Teachers of primary and secondary education need to catch up significantly in this area. Nowadays children grow up in a visual culture that determines their lives. They strongly prefer images, sound, colors and action. This greatly affects their (learning) attitude at school. 'Kids are certainly not too stupid for school. Perhaps school is too stupid for them. Too stupid, too slow, too uncolourful, too mono for a bunch of kids for whom speed, excitement, words, pictures, sound and film are all parts of acquiring and passing on information, all ways of telling stories. At some point, decisions about the way we educate our kids will have to take a much more radical stance (…) The form, ‘content’ and method of knowledge delivery within schools is out of sync with the way that people learn elsewhere, with what they value, with what counts in the world.’ By choosing a digital learning course, we want to do justice to the new learning that the modern pupil requires from us:
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