DYSTOPIAS OF CLASSROOMS' EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES BETWEEN THE REAL AND THE VIRTUAL

Abstract

This essay aims to analyze the deconstruction of the classic classroom space, due to the inappropriate use of networked teaching technologies, that occur in the alienating use of digital platforms. We start from the hypothesis that Distance Education (DE) defines a new function for subjects (teachers and students) in the classrooms' teaching and learning processes. In DE, the incorporation of educational activities carried out in network connectivity can establish other forms of communication between subjects, promoted by the internet, which contrast with being together with others. This is something that presents itself in terms of dystopia, as there is a loss of educational meaning in the absence of connection with nearby others in classrooms, and an intense search to connect with others who are distant. In the current context, the classroom is strained by Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), that present other contours in the relationships between subjects within the scope of the school educational process. The research methodology is within the field of Education Philosophy, aiming to conceptualize educational activity as an encounter between subjects and the school culture. We conclude that educational activities that occur online in the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) should be used critically as a way to complement and support the work done in classrooms. The duality of educational activity between the real and the virtual can present several contradictory elements that undermine the subject's function as an intellectual in the classroom, since what prevails would be information devoid of critical analysis. This duality established between the real and the virtual in classrooms during educational activities constitutes the central point of discussion for understanding the various nuances in the subject's formation process, and the issue of quality in education. This quality, within the scope of teaching and learning processes, should occur in a direct relationship of encounters between subjects in promotions of experiences' exchanges to elaborate the concept in the field of school culture.