As tecnologias de informação e comunicação e sua utilização na educação infantil: um estudo de caso da prática pedagógica em uma escola particular de Santa Maria

Abstract

This work aimed to understand how information and communication technologies in school environments are used in pedagogical activities in early childhood education. Therefore, the investigative processes, permeated by the specific objectives in this research, are based on: identifying the pedagogical practices developed with children of four and five years through the teachers' daily plans; analyze proposals that involve daily practices of the use of TICs; reflect on technological mediation; and to discuss the importance of the constant training of teachers in the use of TICs. This research is configured as a case study with a qualitative approach. The documentary research analyzed the daily records of three nursery teachers from a private institution in the municipality of Santa Maria, RS. For data collection, the analysis of the lesson plans produced by the three pre-school teachers was used. In this sense, the documentary analysis contributed with this work, since these records are part of the school archives, which were accessed for the accomplishment of the analysis that this research proposes. The data corroborate the importance of the teacher's practice as a subject of his action, in his work reflect on his practice in a way that it assumes meaning both for learners and educator, as well as the importance of the insertion and use of technologies in the school environment , computer labs, teacher practice with the use of TICs, acting and training. It was found that the use of TICs in pedagogical activities are done through projects that may privilege their students in the construction of knowledge mediated by the insertion of technologies and according to the needs of the students of that respective school and using the ludic activities it is possible to develop perceptive abilities, reasoning, motor skills, creativity, stimulation and socializing as well as socialization.