Alternative technologies in public education systems: a possible transformation

Cases from Brazil, the United States of America, Spain and Mexico show how free and open technologies can be part of the pedagogical process, contribute to closing digital gaps, fostering digital democratization, and promoting the realization of the right to education.

The policy brief is shared on the basis on a conceptual matrix built on the right to education normative, the research sought to analyze to what extent five cases of open and free digital technologies in public basic education respond to the dimensions of this right (availability; accessibility; acceptability; adaptability and accountability), hereinafter referred to as “5As”. It is urgent to identify, disseminate and replicate critical and creative uses of technologies in pedagogical processes, which can transform students and teachers into protagonists of the
development of collaborative, free and democratic technologies.