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Training and digital culture
Edited by our chief editor
Denys Lamontagne
In a hurry
As deadlines approach and deadlines shorten, the injunction to be efficient is transformed into pressure, expressed as stress, impatience, frustration or guilt if it is not respected.
If there is an intoxication with speed, it has consequences for quality: quality of production, quality of life, quality of interaction, quality of decision-making; certain thresholds cannot be exceeded without risk.
Our agendas organize our future and define its limits with alerts and reminders; our sporadic availability is effectively fragmented. Against this backdrop, it's obvious that the processes essential to the development of real skills take time - the kind of continuous time that biology demands, and which is not easily compressible, far short of the acceleration made possible by technology, with AI at the forefront. So, considering our organic reality, the current use of technology in teaching is rightly called into question.
File elements
- In a hurry to live, exhausted to exist
- Is going faster and faster good for your health?
- Digital acceleration and cognitive overload: can we really learn under pressure?
- Does everything really go faster?
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