教育元宇宙:未来教育的乌托邦想象与技术伦理反思

The Metaverse of Education:Utopian Imagination of Future Education and Reflections on Technical Ethics

元宇宙概念的爆火导致资本不断流入元宇宙的各项周边产业,其中教育元宇宙更是受到资本宠爱。通过对元宇宙概念梳理发现,元宇宙在翻译过程中存在语义偏差的问题,即便元宇宙与教育存在诸多勾连,但目前教育元宇宙的大火更多是资本炒作的结果,盲目地研发教育元宇宙相关技术与课程,可能会造成对既有资源的浪费,同时约束教育元宇宙的想象力。与其盲目跟进,不如对教育元宇宙的乌托邦式畅想,以天马行空的想象去构建教育元宇宙的未来图景。同时,对教育元宇宙发展过程中的技术伦理进行反思,防止教育元宇宙发展过程中出现资本与技术的合谋,造成工具理想与人文理性之间出现人为断裂,最终将教育元宇宙沦为“奴役人”“异化人”的工具。

The explosion of the concept of“the Metaverse”has led to the continuous flow of capital into various peripheral industries of the Metaverse,among which the Metaverse of education is favored especially by capital.This incisive study of the concept of the Metaverse reveals that there is a problem of semantic deviation in the translation of the Metaverse.Even if there are many connections between the Metaverse and education,the current fever of excitement about the Metaverse of education is more often than not the result of capital speculation.Blind research and development of the related technologies and courses of the Metaverse of education may cause a waste of the existing resources and restrict the imaginative space of the Metaverse of education at the same time.Instead of blindly following this trend,it is better to construct the future picture of the Metaverse of education with Utopian imagination.At the same time,it is necessary to reflect on the technical ethics in the development of the Metaverse of education so as to prevent the collusion of capital and technology in its development,which may result in an artificial fracture between the instrumental ideal and humanistic rationality,and finally turn the Metaverse of education into a tool of“enslaving people”and“alienating people”.