Cyberspace technologies: ethical foundations and tasks of education.

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.558582507054

• Palavras-chave: cyberspace, ethical foundations, educational challenges.

• Keywords: cyberspace, ethical foundations, educational challenges.

• Abstract:

  This paper presents a set of premises that characterizes the emerging technologies inscribed in cyberspace, which today permeate and govern the forms of communication, work and relations of human beings with nature, among others, and the role of education in the criticism and reflection of its development. The objective of this continuous exposition is to contribute elements that allow reflecting on the ethical action of the exponential, permanent and present development of digital technologies in virtual space, through the dialogic practice that contributes elements to an education that liberates or alienates. Thus, the development of this reflection is built on four sections that, as a whole, respond to the question: what ethical foundations help education to face the dominance of cyberspace technologies that liberate or alienate? The answer gives an account of the characteristics that can enhance one or the other condition. To this end, the following are presented: a) the neutrality of technology that imposes itself with the creation of needs; b) the self-propagation of technology as a practice that exceeds the current levels of individual, collective, national State and world State responsibility; c) the presentation of the messianic role to fetishize its power; d) the encouragement of caution in the development of technology in education; and final reflections.