Desenvolvimento de objeto educacional para testar a alfabetização digital de estudantes de um curso técnico em informática subsequente - EaD

Abstract

With the increasing use of information and communication technologies in all sectors of society, increasing the demand for professionals to support users. It is necessary, therefore, that these professionals are encouraged from the beginning of their training to improve their skills in the area, both for a greater use of course as to monitor the evolution of industry will act. The present work it is the dissertation for completion of Mestrado Profissional em Tecnologias Educacionais em Rede, held at the Centro de Educação the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. The work has been built on the line of research focused on the Desenvolvimento de Tecnologias Educacionais em Rede and has as a prototype product educational object named Fluent TI. The product is designed to test knowledge and skills in computers, based on theories related to digital literacy, and to support the learning of students in a course Computer Technician distance education mode, in a Federal institution of Education in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The work presents the stages of development of the educational object that was constructed from quantitative and qualitative research considered, developed through readings related to Digital literacy and skills to students of distance education in the current information society, as well as related work to research topics involving educational objects. There was also the application of questionnaires to survey data for categorization of the questions of the testing and evaluation of the prototype created. The study has contributed to a better understanding of the course investigated and for creating a significant tool for the same, focused on the skills essential to the future professional technician in data processing and can even subsidizing teachers in diagnosis of students who join in the course in question.