摘要:This work discusses both terms information and knowledge, and their meanings acquired from the advances of the information and communication technologies. It seeks for perspectives that signal to mistakes in the understanding of the terms, suggests conceptual elements and allows pondering on the expressions: information society and knowledge society. This article approaches the role of the university as its proposal of learners formation as the basis for educational assumptions and, beyond the approaches that imprison the knowledge to computers’ transferences, it points to Morin’s argument to show the necessity of beginning a reformulation in thinking aiming at enlarging the functions of our cognition, so to modify the speeches and the practice of information for education, looking for facing the challenges that this new society presents to the learners.
关键词:Informação;Conhecimento;Sociedade da Informação;Sociedade do Conhecimento.