Uso das mídias por alunos do ensino fundamental: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The use of media in school, although slowly, has become subject of attention from educators and governments, as concerned with training courses and equipment for schools. Democratize access to information and knowledge in school context is the new challenge for education. It's a new way of articulating the student, professor, information and knowledge. The school now has the challenge of working in a universe of complex languages, with lots of information, with spaces shortened and accelerated time. The role of managers is crucial in this educational process, as chief mediator may provide access for teachers and students in the use of media and technology within the school. If the school is willing to make better use of these tools in education, need to know the reality of families, have access to the various media and how they are using them. Only in this way, you can prepare lesson plans and incorporate into it new methods to improve the teaching-learning process. Therefore, this study was developed. The group studied were students of 4th and 5th grades of Primary School State Devanier Dr. Paul Lauda, located in the neighborhood Tancredo Neves, Santa Maria. The collected data reveal a tendency of disappearing home phone that gave rise to cell phones, the high number of people who have never been to the movies, the growing Internet access, a minority of magazine subscriptions and cable TV, a large number of children and adolescents who watch soap operas, a number of TV sets in every home, etc.. Students researched and use new technologies, use the Internet for fun, but also for school research. It is a generation that knows and knows how to use various electronic gadgets like cell phones, MP3 and similar computers and others and try to use them to facilitate new learning, although they feel difficult to summarize, synthesize and make analysis of texts. That's where the new challenge of the school.