Metaverse and copy-paste education: the invasion of digital platforms

Resumo

The following text presents the start of the digital economy in Silicon Valley in San Francisco, California. At the same time, it questions the scope and limits of the digitalization of education after the pandemic. Under the prevailing idea of educational prosperity, thanks to the use of digital platforms, the other side of the coin is revealed: the overexploitation of the cognitive. With this, copy-paste education goes on to be torn between traditional virtual education and virtual meta-education. Furthermore, two positions are put forward; those which defend the use of technologies (techno-romantics) and those which cautiously observe the use of these tools and their consequences in education.