New technologies require education to renew itself

Abstract

The growing importance of information and knowledge in the business world means that computer-based electronic spaces will become the central space of the global accumulation of capital and dealings with that capital. These electronic spaces are also spaces where knowledge can be created and stored collectively and whose resources are freely accessible. They generate a new context of experience and provide us with new schemata in which we perceive the world and ourselves. These possibilities change the conditions for the constitution of subjectivity and the forming of socialness. The interlinking of technical and social developments affects the basic relationship between the subject and the world. And that is where education has a responsibility to become involved. What types of subject does education have to deal with nowadays and what task does it face in relation to this subject? To find answers to these questions, we need to take a look at what it means to grow up and live in a digital world, to use new technologies, to influence them and be influenced by them.

Key words: new technologies, learning spaces, Education.