The Education of Desire and the Use of ICT

Abstract

This chapter proposes an approach to the education of desire in students who routinely use ICT in their formal, nonformal, and informal educational processes. The use and appropriation of ICT during childhood and adolescence have reconfigured the way they learn in formal or school settings, not formal or semi-school, and informal or non-school. Therefore, learning with ICT, learning for ICT, or learning from ICT determines the purpose of the learning process and involves a prior education of desire in terms of retribution—deprivation, pleasure—pain, memory—forgetfulness, past—future; on the other hand, the education of desire considered from the use of ICT as a cognitive tool to be valued from very well-defined reference horizons may contribute elements of novelty about the accompaniment processes of those who learn through ICT mediation. Finally, the philosophical reflection will be aimed at the enunciation and development of the values that respond to the education of desire as a reference horizon to learn for the beneficial use of ICT.