Tecnologia de informação e comunicação e a formação continuada de professores para uma cultura digital

Abstract

This paper presents a study on Information and Communication Technologies and the ongoing training of teachers for a digital culture. The purpose of this study was to investigate how public school teachers use digital tools and what skills they have with digital tools. The research starts from own experiences as a student of the Specialization in ICT course, offered by UAB - UFSM. For the accomplishment of this qualitative work, it was based on theorists like Prensky (2001), Ponte et al. (2004), Fava (2012), Souza and Bonilla (2014) and was attended by teachers from the public basic education network in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul, in the Fourth Colony. The questionnaire was sent by e-mail to the participants. The answers were interpreted and presented in the paper. In this study it can be concluded that teachers use digital tools to research, synthesize, explore, present a subject, create groups or learning communities in social networks to debate a specific theme, to develop collaborative and dynamic activities using resources available in the web. In addition, to make good use of the digital tools in the classroom in order to promote the effectiveness of learning, it is necessary for teachers to master the tools they will use, to know how to research and to assist students when necessary, to have knowledge about didactics, organization of the teaching process.