BETWEEN THE DIGITAL AND THE DIGITALS: FOR A RESPONSIBLE TEACHING

Abstract

This article proposes a discussion about what concerns teaching practice and what distinguishes it from mere content transmission. In this sense, we start from the prognosis made by the CEO of OpenAI - the company behind the creation of ChatGPT, a digital tool for generating fluid, cohesive, and coherent answers - according to which this technology, in a few years, would replace teachers in classrooms. We seek to refute this idea by characterizing the relationship between the educator and their object of knowledge in what it can have of singular. Drawing on the notions of "love," by Jan Masschelein and Maarten Simons, and "character," as developed by Jorge Larrosa, we argue that teaching action, at least one that can truly claim to be so, is not limited to presenting answers; in fact, it has to do with a way of responding to the world - in other words, there is a kind of responsibility for a world. Finally, to illustrate what we have developed more theoretically in the first part of the text, we turn to a memory shared in an interview by writer Mia Couto about a primary school teacher: from the gestures of this teacher, taken here as a lesson, as an exemplary narrative, we outline the contours of what responsible teaching practice can be, and therefore, not replaceable by a tool that merely provides answers.