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Publisher Summary
School is now confronted with the omnipresence of the digital. How can the time of learning be reconciled with the regime of instantaneity?
Drawing on his experience as a school principal, Ahmed Messaoudi observes the tensions at work: sleep disorders, mental-health fragilities, cyberbullying and growing difficulties of concentration. He analyses the collision between students' biological rhythms and the algorithmic time that shapes their everyday lives.
Far from easy solutions, the book proposes rethinking school. It explores the blind spots of the digital revolution, including ecological impact and the attention economy, as well as the silent dispossession of thought.
Neither technophobic nor technophile, the book is an invitation to refound a deeply human school: a place of bonds, assumed slowness, critical thought and empathy, where one learns to master digital tools while cultivating autonomy and authentic presence.
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Context on the Site
This book develops in fuller form the architecture that the site continues to explore: clash of temporalities, digital anomie, dispossession of the educational subject, cognitive justice, digital metacognition, hybrid solidarity and responsible digital autonomy. The conceptual map is summarised on the page Architecture of the Proposal.