Aplicabilidade de tecnologias da informação e comunicação para a educação rural: uma análise de desafios e perspectivas

Abstract

This article is a partial result of analysis carried out regarded to the potential of Information Technology and Communication (ITC) applied to Elementary Education. Based on investigative experiences in the classroom, first we analysed some issues concerning to the deployment of the Information Technology and Comunication applied to the learning – teaching process in education at elementary schools ,,located in the rural area of the municipality of Jóia /RS. The methods used in the development of practical activities such as community interviews, activities in the computer laboratory and the use of other audio visual resources in the classroom and extra-classroom, have become during the school year instrument of analysis and diagnosis of paradidatic potential and the problematic of contemporay education. Relating the importance of computational methods in education and the use of “new” technologies and their appliation to education , new questions have come up regarding to the introduction of information technology in elementary education. Thus the subject of this article is the search for the implementation and establishment of a real informational pedagogic educational practice.