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"Mr President, I should like to congratulate our rapporteurs and thank them for the many ideas they have thrown up, on which we shall vote in concrete reports. We live in a time of rapid change, but we cannot allow one half of mankind or perhaps a minority of human beings to keep up and others not. So that the whole question of democratisation confronts us with great problems regarding the technology we are discussing.
The previous speaker spoke a little while ago about lifelong learning. I read a plea for calling it instead ‘learning as you live’. In fact I prefer that. Because lifelong learning seems to be a mammoth task, while ‘learning as you live’ stimulates our curiosity everyday anew. For children it should be ‘learning as you play’. Also through the playful use of the materials available to ensure development, access to information, learning how to learn. In that connection I was struck by a complaint by one of those odd teacher figures at a school in Flanders who objects that he has now equipped his school with 200 computers and ensured that all those classes are accessible, but that there is no regulation governing the status of staff. There is no such thing as a statutory framework for ICT coordinators. It seemed an excellent idea to put this to you. Because if we simply go hammering on about infrastructure and not about the right way of using it, do not ensure the user-friendliness of teaching material in the educational environment and do not actually make it available and keep it up to date day by day, then it will all come to nothing. I remember the time when language labs were introduced into schools ; it was a great, fashionable surge and all self-respecting schools had such a language lab. You should go and see what a shambles they have become, and you are bound to wonder for how long they were actively in use. I therefore feel that we should be given the facts: what is the position now? It is said that in Flanders there is a computer for one pupil in every ten. I wish that were true, I hope it is true, but what do we want to achieve, where do we want to be in five years’ time and in ten years’ time? I hope there will not be a gulf between people who can keep up and those who cannot."@en1
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