Tecnologias da informação e comunicação na educação: o uso do tablet por professores do ensino médio

Abstract

Information and Communication Technologies - ICT, are right pieces in the new format that Brazilian and world education has taken. The most recent public policy promoting ICT is Digital Education - Policy for Interactive Computers and Tablets. In this context, the present article investigates the use of the tablets as a pedagogical tool at the level of teaching and learning by high school teachers of a state public school. The research was carried out by means of the application of 12 questionnaires to the teachers and an interview with the Center of Technology and Education of the regional coordinate of education that the school is linked. The school case study, is located in Ijuí, in Rio Grande do Sul and offers the community the modality of high school. Teachers assert that the tablet as ICTs are important resources for education, and consider them as teaching and learning tools. However, the tool provided by public policy is considered obsolete by teachers.