Black Mirror: “El Mundo a Través de una Pantalla” Una Visión Crítica de las Tecnologías la Información y la Comunicación

Abstract

This article presents a classroom experience carried out in the Abraham Lincoln school with the eleventh grade students of the subject Theory of Knowledge, which is part of the core component of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program. This experience consisted in the discussion of the Technology-society-culture and knowledge relationship from the observation of some chapters of the Netflix Black Mirror series. The experience was carried out favoring the elaboration of knowledge questions, arguments, and counterarguments around the optimistic and dystopian vision of information and communication technologies and their role in knowledge. This strategy allowed to contrast several visions about the relationship among technology-society-culture and knowledge that strengthen critical thinking and that become an alternative to discuss the challenges that arise from the use of the ICT's the scope of the same as generators of development, democratization of information, de-elitization of knowledge, sociability and communication in contrast to the dehumanization, control, manipulation, distortion, superficiality and individualism that can be promoted through its use. This pedagogical experience also allowed to strengthen the development of an open multiperspectivist and critical mentality in face of the challenges of the contemporary world.