The 21st century: the era of virtualized knowledge… (1) *By Hector Williams Zorrilla The COVID-19 pandemic found many millions of human brains out of date and disconnected from the process that knowledge follows in the current era. But not only to human beings per se, but also to millions of educational institutions, including prestigious universities, to which the COVID-19 pandemic showed their photographs disconnected from the processes of knowledge in the 21st century. No human being who has the doors and windows of his brain open can have the slightest doubt that human knowledge is currently virtualized. The Google app in any language is a virtual brain available to anyone on the planet with internet access. Libraries are becoming virtualized in almost every country on the globe. The publications of books and magazines are virtual or digital, not physical. Teaching and learning processes at all levels, including literacy, are virtualized and digitized. Now you learn to read on ta
The Google platform has become one of the virtual brains of virtualized knowledge of the 21st century (…two) *By Hector Williams Zorrilla Virtualized knowledge places teachers and professors in the space and role that they must play in the teaching-learning process: they are guides, mentors, facilitators, promoters, motivators, and positive reinforcers of that process. Which means that they are NOT the writers, screenwriters, main actors, and directors of "the movie of the teaching-learning process". In an era where knowledge is virtualized, teachers cannot try to teach with the old technique of “emptying information from their brains into the brains of students”. To give an example, in today's virtualized teaching-learning process, while the teachers are imparting information to the students, at the same time, the students have the power to verify, in their intelligent tools at their disposal, if what these teachers are teaching has foundations or not. Students only hav