EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: PRESCRIPTION AND SOLUTIONISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION

The Digital information and communication technologies have been making a significant presence in multiple discussions in the field of Education and, with the Covid-19 pandemic, it has become a central issue in reflections on the future of educational processes. Among the academic productions, two conceptions can be identified a priori, one more prescriptive and solutionist, verified from the works of Levy (2014, 2016), extensively mentioned in academic and informative texts; and a more critical one, about the controversies and conflicts present in the political context, based on a diversity of authors. In this article, such conceptions are articulated to the discussions by Dias Sobrinho (2010), Santos (2011), Almeida (2012), and Goergen (2013), on higher and postgraduate education. When dealing with the perspectives and subversions of the use of technologies in the educational field, it is intended to contribute to the most critical discussions, which can influence in higher education and academic production.