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NEW SOCIETY AND SCHOOL TECHNOLOGIES - Coggle Diagram

- - - - ICTs bring together a set of systems necessary to manage information, and especially the computers and programs necessary to convert, store, manage, transmit and find it.
        The first steps towards an information society go back to the invention of the electric telegraph, later passing through the fixed telephone, radiotelephony and, finally, television. Internet, mobile telecommunication and GPS can be considered as new information and communication technologies.
        
        The technological revolution that humanity is currently experiencing is due in large part to significant advances in information and communication technologies.
        The great changes that essentially characterize this new society are: the generalization of the use of technologies, communication networks, the rapid technological and scientific development and the globalization of information.
- - - - Information technology (IT) is changing the traditional way of doing things, people who work in government, in private companies, who direct personnel or who work as a professional in any field use IT daily through the use of the Internet, credit cards, electronic payroll payment, among other functions; that is why the role of IT in business processes such as manufacturing and sales has greatly expanded.
        The first generation of computers were intended to keep records and monitor the operational performance of the company, but the information was not timely since the analysis obtained on a given day actually described what had happened a week earlier.
- - - - The term comes from the English "digital divide", used by the Clinton Administration - specifically, Simon Moores is cited as the coiner of the term - to refer to the fracture that could occur in the United States between "connected" and "not connected. "If the serious differences between territories, races and ethnicities, classes and genders were not overcome through public investments in infrastructure and aid to education. Hence, some authors prefer, in Spanish, the term "digital fracture" or "digital stratification", because it is much more expressive about what it really means.
        
        Other authors extend the scope of the Digital Divide to also explain it in terms of what has been called "digital illiteracy", which consists of the scarce ability or competence of a large majority of members of the generations born before the sixties to manage computer technology tools and whose access to Internet services is therefore very limited.
- - - - En todos los niveles educativos, las innovaciones apuntan hacia el uso de nuevas técnicas didácticas y modificaciones profundas en la relación profesor - estudiante, lo que implica un mayor apoyo de NTE.