Equal opportunities and new technologies. An educational model for technological literacy

Abstract

New Technologies are an undeniable fact and they provide important and varied advantages to people who make use of them. However, they have got a lot of damaging secondary effects for our social sistem. One of the most important of these effects is the increase of cultural and economic distance between different social groups involved in technological development and those groups excluded of this development. The planification of different social and educational political actions pointed to compensate inequalities in the access to New Technologies is an urgent need if we want the Information Society to be not only for a few, but for the greater part of the citizens.