O uso do laptop educacional em sala de aula na Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental Presidente Costa e Silva

Abstract

This article presents an exploratory study developed at Escola Municipal De Ensino Fundamental Presidente Costa e Silva, in Panambi, Northwest of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, which has participated in a digital inclusion project occoured between 2010 and 2015. The use of laptops in the classroom, a project called "Um Computador por Aluno" – UCA (One Computer Per Child), which is the introduction of a laptop per student, inside of the classroom in order to promote digital inclusion. With the use of digital technologies, the school environment seeks to improve access to different forms of knowledge and new teaching methodologies. From the research analysis of the use of laptops, the objective of this study is to highlight the reflection on the positive and negative aspects of the use of this technology in the classroom. What indicators on the use of the educational laptop, its potentialities and difficulties faced in the introduction of this equipment aiming at the concrete learning of the students and the training of the educators in order to mediate the empirical knowledge and promote the research, in its fullness to the formation of the citizens