Chapter 12: Digitalization and the Education System: What Prospects for Building a Truly Inclusive System?

This chapter addresses the issue of digitalization in the education system by examining the potential and criticalities inherent in this transition, also in the light of the elements of reflection that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The analysis also aims to verify the various components that are at the origin of the so-called digital divide, which is not to be traced back to the skills profile alone, or to merely economic factors, but also to the very characteristics of the territories and, therefore, infrastructural data.

Given this key, we proceeded to read the contents of the National Plan for the Digital School, and the impact that the PNRR has had on the context of digitalization, above all using a key of interpretation that aims at to exploit the existing tools, including digitalization, being careful to avoid them becoming an instrument of inequality, rather than a tool aimed at bridging existing inequalities.