O ciberespaço como ambiente interativo de aprendizagem na educação pósmodernidade

Abstract

Based upon bibliographical researchs and virtual interviews with academic professionals of Brazil s various regions, this work intends to verify how the cyberspace a means of virtual communication can be transformed into an acquisition and knowledge construction space. For this reason, it starts a discussion placing the emergency of new communication spaces in a context of paradigms changes, considered from the current debates about the post-modernity. The transformations that come from new time of high tecnologies impose the necessity of redimension the concepts like information , communication and knowledge . The educational process is placed as central aspect in that redimension. It is our conviction that, through interaction and simulation special characteristics, inherent from cyberspace, people can acquire knowledge and not only information. The study revels the appearance of a new culture with the coming of inter-relations provided by the cyberspace which is know as cyberculture, that will be able to influence all the humanity on this next millennium.