Digital cultures in the 21st century education

Digital technologies are represented by the convergence of computer technologies (software and hardware), microelectronics, telecommunications, broadcasting, genetic engineering and optoelectronics. Beginning in the 70's, these technologies started playing a keyrole in the economy and development of the countries, generating, as stated by Castells (1999), a new technological revolution. The 21th century is being affected by the universalization of digital technologies and mobile devices which are connected to networks, putting us in constant interaction with (cyber) socio-technical areas where communication occurs in non-fixed places, recording facts and information the moment they occur. Young people are the ones who use this form of communication the most, making it into a brand, a habitus of this generation that is characterized, among other factors, by a great immersion in digital cultures. In this sense, the growing use of mobile devices among young people as well as their immersion in digital cultures are today some of the major challenges for education, mainly for teacher training, because these young people who are authors and producers of information in social networks, need to change their behavior at school in order to adjust to a model of education that prioritizes the reproduction and transmission of information.