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In this article a precedent is described of the role of the Scientific Council on the Complex Problem of Cybernetics of the USSR Academy of Sciences as a foundation for forming a consortium of research organizations, Provisional Scientific and Research Group (PSRG) “School-1” to support the creation of a new national education system.

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  1. See, for example, A. Ya. Lerner, The Beginnings of Cybernetics (Moscow, 1967). https://victor-safronov.ru/systems-analysis/glossary/large-scale-system.html

  2. Part of this conversation with Papert is in Ershov’s archive [18].

  3. For Seymour’s letter to A. Papert on May 21, 1987, see [15].

  4. Letter with attachment to the International Foundation for Human Survival and Development proposing the use of computers in 21st century learning. Attached is the Omega Schools project. December 19, 1987 [20].

  5. See http://www.botik.ru/~robot/pervin/listic3.htm

  6. See https://www.tau.ac.il/~ilia1/short-cv.html

  7. Today, 30 years later, such a project would be called a development in STEM education (Science-Technology-Engineering-Math Education).

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“Second literacy is not just the ability to write machine commands, but also the cultivation of a decisive and foresighted individual” Academician A.P. Ershov [21]

Dmitry Davidovich Rubashkin. Candidate of technical sciences, Director of NCO Technological Innovations for Modern Education (TIME), docent of the Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg), an expert of the Development Council under the St. Petersburg City Administration Committee on Education.

Tatiana A. Rudchenko. Researcher, Axel Berg Institute of Cybernetics and Educational Computing, Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

Alexei Semenov. Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Education, Chair of the Department of Mathematical Logic and Theory of Algorithms, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Director of Axel Berg Institute of Cybernetics and Educational Computing, Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Laureate of the UNESCO Prize, prizes of the President and Government of the Russian Federation, Kolmogorov Prize. Member of key AI development groups since the mid-1960s; in the field of digitalization of education since the mid-1980s.

Alexander Yu. Uvarov. Esteemed scholar with a Doctorate in Pedagogical Sciences, serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Axel Berg Institute of Cybernetics and Educational Informatics of the Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” under the Russian Academy of Sciences. He holds a professorship at the Higher School of Economics’ Institute of Education and functions as an expert at the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education. Dr. Uvarov is a reputable member of the editorial boards for journals such as “Informatics and Education,” “Science and School,” and “21st Century Educator.” He is a laureate of the Russian Federation Government Award in the field of education. In collaboration with Academician Ershov, he developed the pioneering Russian concept of educational informatization. While leading the “Telecommunications in Education” laboratory under Scientific Council on the Complex Problem of Cybernetics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, he initiated the nation’s inaugural experimental educational telecommunication network, MoSTNet, as part of an international project, School Electronic Mail. Dr. Uvarov has been the guiding force behind numerous successful international and national projects aimed at digitally revitalizing Russian schools. His expertise in pedagogical design, curriculum renewal, and educational informatization is widely acknowledged. Within international UNESCO expert groups, he has contributed to formulating the “UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers, versions 2&3,” and the “Guidelines for ICT in education policies and masterplans, 2022.” He has authored or coauthored over 300 publications addressing didactics, educational informatization, pedagogical design, and emergent pedagogical technologies. Notable works among these include titles such as School Informatization: Past, Present, Future, How Good Schools Become Even Better: Experiences from Innovative School Participants, Russian Schools and New IT: A Look into the Next Decade, Telecommunications, Training, Professionalism, Electronic Textbook: Theory and Practice, Cooperation in Attire: Group Work in Class, Distribution of Innovative Educational Materials, Cluster Model of School Transformations in the Era of Educational Informatization, Toward the Digital Transformation of School, Challenges and Prospects of Digital Transformation in Education, Digital Transformation and Scenarios for General Education Development, Educational Telecommunication Projects in Class, among others. ResearcherID: AAD-1708-2019, Scopus AuthorID: 57188748346, Google Scholar Citations ID: 25UQ0rEAAAAJ.

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Rubashkin, D., Rudchenko, T., Semenov, A. et al. Academician A.L. Semenov’s School: Digital Transformation of General Education. Pattern Recognit. Image Anal. 33, 1050–1079 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054661823040375

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