Digital Technology: Between Innovation and Tradition
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Digital Technology: Between Innovation and Tradition María Fernanda Varela Valdés Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM, México, Mexico
Introduction Nowadays, discussions on the use of digital technologies in the field of education are becoming less focused on their suitability and more on their implementation. In contemporary dynamics, it is virtually impossible to stay out of the digital media and its devices. The number of users that have been digitized is growing rapidly worldwide: in 2020, 62% of the population was connected to the Internet according to the World Bank (2020), compared to 49% in 2018 and 25% in 2008. However, growth and connectivity are extremely uneven across economies, and it is in the poorest areas that the major growth has appeared in the last 10 years, demonstrating the efforts of governments and international organizations to connect the world. The objective of digitalization is the automation and acceleration of technical, administrative, and industrial processes in order to make production and service systems more efficient. At the same time that more and more spaces are being transformed by accelerated digitalization, there are still spaces where interpersonal relationships
are privileged, and although they are still mixed with the virtual world, whether it is for coordinating meetings, sharing material, or disseminating the results obtained from the work done, the main activity is focused on the encounter and on creating bonds through the interaction of bodies, language, feelings, and ideas. The school is one of the privileged spaces to potentiate the search of interpersonal contact; however, the educational offer through the net is increasing, generating more and more specialized spaces that offer alternatives close to the new niches of the labor market. This tendency has become so popular that it has forced the great educational centers, recognized by their tradition, prestige, and quality, to offer educational plans and courses online. This trend leads to an increasingly urgent debate in which the central question revolves around the methodologies that should be used to achieve the final objective of education: that the other acquires knowledge that allows them to develop autonomy but now through a screen. The discussion of this issue is deemed important, since online education has become an efficient way to solve mass access to education, whether in times of crisis or in the face of economic, geographical, or political adversity, and has disrupted the educational phenomenon and the processes of subjectivation. Thus, without condemning or exalting the relationship that has emerged between digitalization and schooled education, this entry will attempt to analyze how the
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use of technologies has impacted the educational process and what possibilities exist to create a new tradition. This text will try to delve into the con
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