The 24x32 Notebooks, Memoir on the state of educational technology and some international trends of change

This article analyses the French situation concerning ICT in primary and secondary education (but also partly in higher education) through a comparison of the American and British ones. It will successively address the issues of the usage of ICT, of its educational efficiency, of the so-called new paradigm supposed to foster 21st Century skills. Then it will analyse the new Anglo-Saxon model for managing public education, stressing its ideological posture, and conclude with hidden hints of its influence to be found in some French official reports.