As TICs e os impactos do metaverso no futuro da Educação Brasileira

Abstract

This article refers to the final paper of the social science degree course at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), produced in the first semester of the academic year. It’s about an investigation regarding the advance of TICs and how they interfere in new ways of learning found in Brazilian education nowadays. The first section brings up the historical context around the emergence and mastery of TICs. The second section focuses on the introduction of the Metaverse and the discussion about how its creation has inspired and influenced the invention of many technologies since then, such as the change that this cyberspace can bring to the world of social media. The third section shows statistical data about digital exclusion and regularization of students from public schools, having the goal to question and discuss the naturalization of the social inequality in schools and the reinforcement of these differences in a pandemic time. Lastly, the text intends to point out the expectations for the future of Metaverse education. The method applied to the construction of this text consists of bibliographic research, with a special highlighting of the books, articles and sites about the theme, besides the filmic analysis indicated in the text.