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1. - The computer dialogue

The education is not the only cause of the social changes; but

the social transformations have never done without the

education.

Nowadays, the education has experienced the new impact coming

from the computer science massive intrusion in their perfectly

certain and assumed environments. The barriers that were

reserved just for the social elite have been broken so the

education is at hand of the population.

The computer science is not the only cause, but it is a

¡°trigger¡± [1] that has accelerated the processes in a sort

of democratisation and the development of synergy of the

providing State.

This acceleration will be underlined in next century, but we will

see more and more the appearance of systems willing to cover the

principle of the education during a lifetime.

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In the next century, also, the tendency for a generalisation of

the education will be accentuated This will provided knowledge

for the creation of wealth and the improvement of the quality

of life.

The development of the information and the communication

technology will revolt the concept of time and space, and it will

ease the appearance of a kind of a planetary intimacy.

The computer revolution offers such a new the education

possibilities that the traditional educational institutions as,

for example, the University will have to keep up the pace with

competitors that have been formed in programs that focuses more

on the style and the appearance that on the information and the

technical knowledge. They have integrated the user- friend and

the virtual methods in some educational processes that have been

governed by the laws of the market.

Whatever it is, we will have to stop teaching too many useless

things. But it will be necessary to avoid a decaffeinated

teaching, as well as the appearance of anti-cognitive values,

and to strengthen the common and traditional intellectual

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values.

It will also be necessary to avoid the multiplication of the

technology in the educational processes. It doesn't seem

exaggerated to affirm that, particularly in this matter, part

of the history of the correspondence education, for example, has

arisen with the enthusiasm caused by the technologies. However,

having overestimated the capacity of the technologies to solve

the educational problems, a kind of frustration has appeared.

This is a warning advise for moments like these in which we have

surprising means in what they offer, so much to change the

education systems like the very process of creation of knowledge.

After all, we are aware of the consequences coming from the idea

that the technologies can give the solutions that education

itself should give.

Having said that, when the UNESCO Training Centre - Florida

Eskola, in its CDFAUN project, decided to utilise what the

computer offers to stimulate the fast and comfortable

communication, was looking for a better approach among the

students separated by the distance. Regardless that Internet,

the new technology, was not the best environment for a good

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