Symposium 1: Networking between school organizers - supporting the advanced use of digital technologies in the educational system

Abstract

This paper aims to describe and analyse how school organizers network to expand the access and use of digital technologies in the educational system. The digitalization of the educational system requires digital competence since digital technologies develop fast. It involves a holistic view and a lifelong learning perspective. Change processes that digitalization brings make school organizers network and share challenges and successes. The data have been collected in the framework of a project between three municipalities. Thematic analysis and practice architecture have been used to categorize and analyse the data. When school organizers describe and analyse the network to expand digital technologies in the educational system, they talk about the importance of learning from each other and spreading knowledge, keeping updated with new digital technologies, thinking from a holistic perspective, and communicating digitalization plans. They also discuss the importance of support and collaboration between technology administration and schools.