Digital Educational Technologies: Market Ends or Means at the Service of Critical Learning?

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15359/rep.17-1.1.eng

Keywords:

critical and transformative learning, critical education, banking education, pedagogy, educational digital technologies, face-to-face teaching, virtual learning, artificial intelligence

Abstract

This essay intends to show that digital technologies have their own goals since their creation and that some possible consequences of their indiscriminate use in education are misinformation, solipsism, loss of privacy and labor rights, the instrumentalization of reason and life, generating benefits for a few companies and business people that promote them to accumulate riches concentrated in few hands. From this reality, we propose that their use be revised so that their application does not follow parameters issued by big companies, financial entities, or neoliberal governments, that they be used critically, ethically, and politically to benefit those that have fewer opportunities, nature itself, those that are unprivileged, and social justice to reach an ethical, aesthetic, and transformative learning.

Author Biography

Juan Rafael Gómez Torres, Universidad Nacional

Lecturer in the area of Teaching of Philosophy in the Department of Educology at Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, researcher and extensionist in the Critical Literacy program of the same department and Doctor in Latin American Thought from Universidad Nacional. He has published six books as author and co-author, numerous articles in national and international scientific journals, has attended numerous scientific meetings, and has given and attended conferences, presentations, seminars, workshops both nationally and abroad.

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Published

2022-05-28

How to Cite

Gómez Torres, J. R. (2022). Digital Educational Technologies: Market Ends or Means at the Service of Critical Learning?. Ensayos Pedagógicos Journal, 17(1), 39-59. https://doi.org/10.15359/rep.17-1.1.eng

How to Cite

Gómez Torres, J. R. (2022). Digital Educational Technologies: Market Ends or Means at the Service of Critical Learning?. Ensayos Pedagógicos Journal, 17(1), 39-59. https://doi.org/10.15359/rep.17-1.1.eng

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