Tecnologias da informação na rotina estudantil: estudo de caso dos alunos de um curso de graduação

Abstract

Several learning theories emphasize the importance of social interactions as a way to promote human development. In this way, technological tools, when properly used, have the power to construct science by allowing the reflection and critique on the assumed hypothesis. Thus, the information technologies applied to teaching and learning processes should be used to support the methodology adopted by the teacher once, the real educational function is to create learning conditions and, in this case, using computers as a facilitating tool. This work aimed to verify if students from the Course of Economy have been using Information and Communication Technologies, which are available to them in and outside the university environment, as a tool in the teaching and learning process. To reach these results, we carried out a case study by applying a questionnaire to the students from the course object of the research, considering the specificities of its working area. The results demonstrated that the students from the Course of Economy, from the considered Institution, use most of the ICTs that are available to them, in the university environment and outside it. The researched students considered it important that the teaching and learning process to be complemented by the use of ICTs but however, we observed some inconsistencies, and for example, most of the students consider as a significant factor that teachers have blogs with academic purpose but, some admit that they do not read the material posted by their Masters. We come then to the conclusion that for all students definitely use the available technological tools, it is necessary to “create” the culture, especially by teachers, because the students understand and consider the ICTs importance but not necessarily make use of them.