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In 1992 we organized the First European Congress on Information Technology in Education: a critical view. The reason was to respond to the growing interest in the development of Information Technology (IT) and its possible use in improving the teaching and learning.

In 2002, the profound changes brought about by the pressure of certain political and economic visions and the widespread use of Information Technologies and Communication Technologies (ICT) in most areas of society led us to organize a second edition Congress. This meeting, like that of 1992, aimed to analyze dispassionately the elements of cultural, social and technological environment in which education takes place and which is built the theory and practice of education and citizenship.

Ten years later, twenty since the first Congress, the process of digitalization of society, linked to political views, economic and cultural predominantly liberal, has increased and phenomena such as the emergence of the so-called Web 2.0 and social networks have produced positioning a series of optimistic and pessimistic about the present and the future of education and society.

During these years, education at all levels and social conditions of most human beings have not improved to the level that has made digital technologies. School disaffection, which leads to the abandonment of formal studies of a number of students in secondary and university education, as well as the growing gap between the experiences, life and values of young people and adults are beginning to raise voices alert. Digital technologies are configured together as a solution to meet current educational needs as a problem that must be answered.

In this context and situation seems an appropriate moment to offer a space to reflect, together, consciously and critically about the processes that are generated around the educational use of ICT and what might be its role in the process of creating knowledge.

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