Internet e educação: o que pensam os educadores

Abstract

This article presents a study about the perception of educators, who are working at Elementary School, about the Internet in the education. The objective of the work is to investigate the role and the relevance of the Internet in education and in professional lives of educators, examining issues such as access, use in the classroom and planning, contribution/irrelevance for the education, professional actuation, teaching-learning process. This research presents a qualitative approach, with a descriptive focus involving bibliographic research and using as technique of data collection, the questionnaire. The research was developed with educators who act in different levels/years of Elementary School, from public schools in the municipality of São Gabriel/RS. The results indicate that the Internet is used by the educators, both in personal and professional sphere and that it is present in their planning. The educators they also believe that the Internet can contribute to the education in order to facilitate the process of teaching and learning. However, the use of this media in the classroom, in the practice of educators, is not realized.