Uses of social networks: cyberculture and critical thinking

Abstract

This work presents the partial results obtained during the pedagogical research process entitled "Political Training with Facebook Support for the Configuration of Critical Thinking Facing Cyberculture" at the IED Charry in Bogotá, whose general objective was to systematize this experience between 2020- 2021 with 10th and 11th grade students. Specifically, it shows the previous characterization that served as an input for the pedagogical intervention. For this, the information collected from student surveys, semi-structured interviews with students and teachers, and written material from other related investigations were triangulated. The systematized data show the class inequalities, euphemistically called the digital divide, which hampered the virtual learning process in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the imaginaries and forms of socialization built by students around cyberculture, which are analyzed from a Marxist perspective, which shows the difficulty in the construction of critical thinking during virtuality. Likewise, both surveys and interviews show students unmotivated against virtual education due to digital boredom, which, on the other hand, does not impede sensitivity to the political and social reality of Colombia.