The digital culture /whoever does not adapt will be excluded

Written by:Diomer Antonio Galán Rincón.

Bachelor's Degree.Public Accounting / MSc.Science of Higher Education.

For several years, large technology corporations have been betting on the use of tools that can facilitate users who do not have advanced technological knowledge in creating applications and web pages, a trend to educate or open enterprises that today is gaining more strength.

The COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated that in the educational field, interactions in classrooms have had to change to the new virtual world in many countries, implementing online training elements, which help teachers to teach their classes and students to receive them without leaving home.

It should be noted that one of the most used apps for educational management at all levels is WhatsApp, because they reach practically a fairly high percentage of students in the public and private education sector, Other virtual alternatives is the Moodle platform, where participatory tasks are raised in the teaching-learning process.

There are also the apss in which online questionnaires can be made such as Kahoot and Quizizz, both are available to the student and teacher, allowing the latter to share relevant information with other teachers on certain content and even being able to use evaluation of colleagues from other countries. Having access to this information and being able to use and share it from different parts of the world is no longer a limitation.

On the other hand, despite the fact that we get all this variety of Apps in the network technology, there is a great limitation and it goes hand in hand with the pedagogical issue, if these elements are not used with a pedagogical objective, they are like a shooting star, with a few seconds of bright and disappears quickly, because the student uses it only to comply with the teacher. Awareness must be raised with the teacher to lead them towards a digital pedagogy.

Due to the current circumstances we need to change the chip towards the new digital era and it has been very appropriate because it has reduced the digital divide in which we were, not only in the educational field at all levels, but also in other areas.

We have been an important part of this evolution Online , using applications to buy things, whether it is food from the restaurant or supermarket, something we usually did not do, because our society likes to touch and see things personally to acquire the product, but in a very short time we must adapt to this new modality.

It is very important to make it clear that if we go back to face-to-face, both parents and students will demand this virtual part. It is no longer an option that students will attend classrooms, with their cardboard or plastic slate and their book; when there is a new culture created digitally.

We can say that technology has reached a level in society to stay and it is not bad, but it is no less true that we must educate ourselves well to handle it, to lead the way on par with the demand of society and with the technological advancement that grows in seconds. In this universe in which we are with globalization, it is up to us to make a definitive choice whether to remain stagnant with the traditional view of the world or whether to take the new path called digital culture. Although we are stumbling, we must have the necessary capabilities to face the digital culture and develop ourselves in this society today that is so demanding in the technological issue.

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