La educación en la sociedad del conocimiento

Abstract

The purpose of the following lines is to describe education in the knowledge society, revealing some theoretical nuances that show the relationship and linkage of these categories, from a documentary bibliographic method, carrying out a reflective analysis of this context and transferring it to the Venezuelan educational reality. . In this sense, the studies that sought to know education in the knowledge society, its influence of ICTs in education, were investigated and systematized, analyzing the conception of the knowledge society. The sample used was theoretical, made up of research articles searched in different databases of scientific information and systematized in a documentary matrix. The analysis was carried out based on the content analysis technique and the hermeneutical analysis of each work. In short, given the emergence of this new knowledge society, in which the quality, management and speed of information become a key factor for competitiveness, it is necessary to adopt a critical stance in the face of the avalanche of information that arrives to students, this is one of the things that teachers have to do at different levels of education, starting with initial education.