Social Innovation for the Sustainability

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DIGITAL REVOLUTION, TECHNO-OPTIMISM AND EDUCATION

Ricardo Riaza

In the last thirty years, educational technologies seem to have paved the way for a revolution that never arrives. In this paper, we review the critical approaches of different authors to this idea. Roughly, these authors analyze why the expectations in this field are not being met, and suggest that a techno-optimistic stance underlies such expectations; this view assimilates technology and progress in a straightforward manner, and advocates the use of technology even in the absence of supporting data. This can be seen as a consequence of certain political and economic interests, together with a form of social enthusiasm towards technology which emanates from its success in other fields (health, transports, communications, etc).

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EDUCATION PERSPECTIVE: EFFECTS OF THE PANDEMIC AND POST-PANDEMIC WITH RESPECT TO THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Jairo Eduardo Márquez Díaz

Education at its different levels and modalities was led to a radical change in the way of carrying out the teaching and learning process in the period of health crisis due to COVID-19. This gloomy panorama broke the teacher-student interaction schemes, leading education to break with the classic paradigm of lecture versus virtual teaching.