Technology ethics and sociability at school

The book''s thematic field is technology and sociability at school with the objective of understanding the processes of sociability among teachers and students who use cell phones during class time. The study allowed us to perceive the following results: at school most people use cell phones for their private interests and very sporadically they are used as a pedagogical tool; the teachers'' concern is pedagogical-rational focused on teaching the subject content while the students isolate themselves on their cell phones oblivious to what is happening conditioning the teachers to an authoritarian practice and the construction of a discourse in which they say that the use of cell phones negatively affects the teacher''s authority and harms the quality of the teaching work. In the ethical dimension the classroom shows itself as an imprisoning environment stifling inter-human ethical possibilities between teachers and students since the educational action does not add human values losing the human enchantment in education as a moment of meaning production for life.