Learning Alienation in the Age of Digital Intelligence:Individualization,Narrowing,and the Poverty of Meaning
Reflecting on the alienation of learning in the age of digital intelligence is a humanistic concern and response to learners and their learning in the age of technology,a consensual consideration of whether the digital transformation of education can realize the unity of digital technology and digital well-being,which is related to the legitimacy foundation of building a learning society and a learning power with lifelong learning for all.Alienation refers to a state in which a thing is alienated and thus separated from itself and becomes self-sufficient in the direction of otherness to the point of being opposed to itself,and as a common feeling in everyday life,it expresses the state in which"people voluntarily do something they don't really want to do,"and the"lack of relationality"between individuals and themselves,others,and the world.In the age of digital intelligence,learning is becoming things that people do voluntarily but not things that people really want to do,and there is a growing lack of relationship between the learner and learning activities and their outcomes,the self,other learners,and the world.In the gradual transformation from the right to education to the right to learn,and then to the obligation and responsibility to learn,the fact of the individualization of learning stands out.The emancipatory logic supported by the process of the individualization of learning turns into a force of alienation endangering itself,breeding the pain of forced learning and forced autonomy of the learner in the risk society.Digital technologies have intensified the compulsion for computability,agility,performance and transparency.The parochial pursuit of"useful"and"visible"learning leads to a shrinking of the purpose and content of learning and a narrowing of the understanding and practice of learning,resulting in one-sided development of learners and excessive competition with others.In the face of the challenges posed by artificial intelligence to humans,especially the increasingly intelligent machine learning,there is a hidden concern of objectification and poverty in learning significance for learners at the junction of instrumental and value meanings.In response to the alienation of learning in the era of digital intelligence,it is necessary to seek the unity of digital technology and digital welfare from a broad perspective beyond limited learning,that is,to reaffirm the principle of education as a right and common interest,to promote the free and comprehensive development of the whole population with high-quality and balanced basic education,and to conduct forward-looking thinking on the possible pain points of future education and learning while having a reasonable and dialectical understanding of digital technology and a profound insight into learning alienation.
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