In today's society, much of life happens in digital environments that affect adults, youth, boys and girls. According to the Kids Online 2022 survey, 89% of this last category in Chile already have their own cell phone with Internet access, a tool that allows them to surf every day at any time. The digital world is already a part of childhood, with eight being the average age when someone owns a cell phone for the first time.
This situation affects various aspects of our daily life, work, home, public places and school, where many questions arise about the use of cell phones or their prohibition. In this context, a document titled “Guidelines for the Use of Cell Phones and Other Mobile Devices in Educational Institutions” by the Ministry of Education was released recently. This handbook is an invitation to educational institutions to develop their own internal regulations, taking into account the participation of all members of the community involved in the search for a model that guides digital technologies in accordance with the learning objectives of educational institutions. National Curriculum, in addition to responsible participation in digital environments.
While there are debates about the uses and contributions of mobile devices in pedagogical strategies, the fundamental issue should be recognizing men and women as active participants in digital environments. In a society marked by technological development?
In 2022, UNESCO launched a document on the future of education, in which it realizes that education, as it is perceived today, does not respond to the challenges we experience as humanity. One of them is the strong pace of technological development and changes in the labor market. Regarding this conversation, at País Digital, we propose that the debate should focus precisely on how we prepare our girls, boys and young people to face the challenges of an uncertain world that is the protagonist of technological development.
The digital nature of our society requires us to prepare and specialize not only in the field of education, but also at the social, political and economic, ethical and privacy levels. Therefore, to address this problem from the ban of a technological device is to stop education in many dimensions that contribute to the talent and human development of our country in the long run.
The digital society is full of opportunities and benefits as well as risks and obstacles. The important thing today is to understand the context and develop strategies for educating in this new subject.
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