TIC EN LA ESCUELA, NUEVAS HERRAMIENTAS PARA VIEJOS Y NUEVOS PROBLEMAS, LAS

Pese a que las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) son usadas cada vez con mayor frecuencia en funciones que antes eran privativas de los libros, los papeles manuscritos o incluso de la comunicación oral (por ejemplo con el chat y el correo electrónico), en el medio de la cultura escrita y, particularmente, de la promoción a la lectura se las mira con recelo. Los lamentos por la supuesta disminución de lectores y las elegías al libro y su rivalidad con el desarrollo tecnológico han impedido ver la variada gama de oportunidades que se han abierto para formar usuarios de la cultura escrita con mayores posibilidades de comprender y participar en la compleja realidad del mundo global.

Despite the fact that information and communication technologies (ICT) are being increasingly used in place of books, hand-written documents, or even oral communication, the world of written culture and reading remains skeptical of them. Lamentations about the supposed decline in reading and discussions of books as rivals of technological development have obscured the many opportunities that have emerged to give consumers of written culture greater possibilities to understand and participate in the complex reality of the globalized world.

Daniel Goldin is an editor and essayist. He is the current editorial director of Océano Travesía. Marina Kriscautzky is a specialist in educational research in psycholinguistics at the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico. She is a researcher in the use of digital platforms in education and is a member of the Sociedad Mexicana de Computadoras en la Educación. She currently develops materials and training programs for teachers about the use of technology in teaching. Flora Perelman is an adjunct professor of psychology and genetic epistemology at the University of Buenos Aires. She co-created the primary education curriculum for the province of Buenos Aires. She has published various articles on practices of language and their relationship to knowledge acquisition in Argentina and elsewhere. She is a member of the coordinating group of the Red Latinoamericana de Alfabetización in Argentina.