Novas tecnologias no contexto escolar

Abstract

The article discusses the changes brought on by information and communication technology advances on contemporaneous society and the consequent change in educational concepts. It reflects on the construction of a different manner to perceive reality, especially based on the so-called intelligent technologies. The article stresses the need for the school to consider these technologies as knowledge producers. On the other hand, it also discusses factors such as means of information and communication centralization, over and beyond exclusion and unemployment generated by the centralized appropriation of technology. The author, considering this picture, presents the challenge of building a curriculum using a hyper-textual logic through which the educator creates possibilities to exchange multiple and different ideas and information, in other words, rich knowledge. The content worked on within this curriculum is no longer the one directed by a hegemonic and centralized power, but, rather, one in which content responds initially to the demands of the different social groups and, then, allows for the insertion of the members of these groups in a globalized world in a critical manner.