TEACHING IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY: TEACHING AND LEARNING PRACTICES WITH THE USE OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS

The phenomenon of globalization based on the remarkable development of ICT and in particular the Internet corresponds today to an improvement and to a social, political and economic transformation as prodigious as the invention of printing by Gutenberg. Castells (2001) designated this phenomenon as Internet Galaxy and of this emerging society is called the Information Society.
The physical universe is now seen as an immense ‘network of interactions’ or ‘web of relationships’ where nothing can be set on a totally independent, but by establishing inter-relationships. To Morin (2003), contemporary education must integrate and coordinate the diverse knowledge, contextualizing them, so that they are meaningful for the student, which suggests a need for educational strategies of interdisciplinary character. However, due to all the scientific and educational tradition of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the current school continues to compartmentalize and separate the knowledge that, according to Morin, should be rewired.
Animated by this perspective we decided to conduct this research and as general objective we intend to analyze the teaching in the Information Society, focusing on teaching and learning practices with the use of technological innovations.