APPrendizagem na Era Digital

PresentationApp-learning in the digital era: knowledge in the school context When this dossier was first thought, the world was different.Regardless of the type of legacy we will have in the school environment and in our social life, the fact that we have gone through a worldwide pandemic, which prevented millions of children from going to school, boosted the use of educational technologies in a dimension and with consequences that only time can show us.However, there is no fear whatsoever in stating that applications (or apps) are already present in our lives in an irreversible way, even if in different proportions for each individual.Howard Gardner and Katie Davis, in their book The App Generation (2014), provocates us; they defend the theory that the young people of today "Not only do they grow up surrounded by applications, but they have also come to understand the world as a set of ordered applications or perhaps, in many cases, as a single application that lasts over time and that accompanies them from the cradle to the grave."(2014, p.21).For the authors, this new generation would have their life organized as a "super app", in which everything they need for their daily lives is quickly accessible: tasks of the day, access to music, news, traffic, social networks, games or weather forecasting, among many others, being able to select and organize them in a personal and individualized way (GARDNER & DAVIS, 2014).The only requirement is that they are fast and that they take us exactly to the point where we want to go.This new Generation`s relationship with applications, not limited to it, brings a series of new and important discussions in different areas: in education, the central focus of this dossier, as well as in sociology, psychology, communication, computing , among many others.It is part of a large area of digital humanities, in which we need to discuss the role of technology in our lives, not only from a quantitative point of view, with an exponential increase in its presence year by year, but especially in quality, analyzing whether it appears as a facilitating element of our daily lives or if, on the contrary, it comes to exist as a centralizing and determining element of our actions

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