How the technologies of the information society affect education: ideas to correct the problems.

Abstract

A generation of young people has grown up and others are growing up under the effects of the unlimited use of so-called smart mobile telephony. There is scientific evidence that these technologies seriously and consistently affect education, but there is still no social alarm that demands regulations from the public powers that are consistent with the level of damage already detected, particularly because the public powers largely ignore what Neurosciences have discovered how these technologies affect human behavior, especially minors and young people. It is necessary to develop silent fundamental constitutional provisions, such as the limitation of the use of information technology to precisely protect their education, dignity and training, since they are the main victims of technological tools that have been shown to corrode attention, generate isolation and social withdrawal, addictive, enhancers of narcissism and destroyer of categories and social bonds essential for a correct and healthy development of our human nature. In this study we try to describe the problem and propose some lines of action for the complex resolution of a social drama that has been generated by not knowing how to rationally manage a powerful technological tool that acts as a sensory drug.