Analfabetismo e segregação digital: desafios do ciberespaço para a educação e a teologia

Abstract

The 21st century brings with it the impact of technology on education, transforming the entire school scenario. With globalization, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) were inserted into everyday life, making information reach us with greater intensity and frequency through computers and cell phones connected to the Internet. The present reality, which can no longer be ignored, makes us reflect on the use of ICTs within the school universe, especially when it comes to the formation of a generation that needs to have knowledge of the cultural assets related to the use of technologies. The inability to deal with these resources has generated a new class of excluded people: the digitally illiterate. These people, because they do not have the knowledge of the typical language of virtual environments, do not enjoy much of the experiences that the experience in the network society has to offer. Thinking about this issue, we sought with this study to get closer to the theme, having Rubem Alves and Paulo Freire as interlocutors. From the triad of Alvezian thought - seeing, thinking inventing - we seek to understand what it means to digitally include people in today's technological scenario, in view of the integral formation of the human being. Paulo Freire's liberating education guides us to reflect on the limits and possibilities of technology as a resource capable of training ethical and responsible people in their performance in the context of digital technologies. By establishing a dialogue between theology and education, we have the opportunity to look at the human being as a whole. If the speed with which information circulates in modern times tends to fragment us, it is necessary to reflect on which aspects of education are capable of forming solid bases, capable of truly including people.