Technological growth: a Brazil-World evolution and re-adaptation after COVID-19

Glauco Fontgalland Filho,Isabel Lausanne Fontgalland

doi:10.52076/eacad-v2i3.33

Glauco Fontgalland Filho, Isabel Lausanne Fontgalland

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https://doi.org/10.52076/eacad-v2i3.33

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Journal: E-Acadêmica	Publication Date: Sep 26, 2021
License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Universidade Federal de Campina Grande

Abstract

The year of 2020 became known as the year of the COVID-19 pandemic. This pandemic has been changing the socioeconomic structures of the world and the educational institutions in Brazil, halting face-to-face activities as time progressed in response to the social distancing measures. Arising from an early perspective of growth, Brazil had to take a leap of faith in readapting itself to the set conditions. According to the teaching method, technology-mediated learning has gained emphasis and makes room for distinguished human interactions. These teaching practices already existed, but only reached a small scale. Technology had to reshape its manners to comfort the demand and the new health requirements. This article presents and discusses the Brazilian perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for the use of new and readapting technologies for the evolution and survival of the pandemic. The main results imply that the enactment of digital inclusion policies seeking to reduce regional inequalities of internet access is a necessary condition for any online teaching strategy to flourish and that technological innovation is parallel to the time progression of the world’s condition.

Highlights

From the dawn of time to the sparks of the logic to the continuous creative thinking that roams our daily lives, technology has proven to be an essential component in our time span
The work developed by Reimers and Schleicher (2020) had the participation of the Global Education Innovation Initiative Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Directorate of Education and Skills of the OECD, which aims to collaborate with educational measures to develop and implement effective responses to education in the period of social withdrawal caused by the COVID-19 pandemic
Facing probably one of the most draconian crises, Brazil made a deep decision to move forward with education based in tech support

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From the dawn of time to the sparks of the logic to the continuous creative thinking that roams our daily lives, technology has proven to be an essential component in our time span. Researchers have speculated on the behavioral growth across the years taking into consideration factors that may influence it, including the current economic conditions that revolve around it, the social aspects that provides for users, the feedback from the population as their needs and desires ever so changes, etc. Providing all these variables, it has been concluded that the pandemic era of the COVID-19 virus has proven to be of major drastic change and influencer on the technological growth. An analysis of these conditions leads to speculations that provide insight into large technological growth, such as [by 2025] the almost 40 billion smart devices expected to be connected and interacting with data through the Internet, the nearly $80 billion market for web hosting services, and the concentration of the majority of technological investment on cloud solutions (Galov, 2011)

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