A contribuição dos softwares educativos no processo de alfabetização escolar: possibilidades e desafios

Abstract

Information technology in education is an important tool in the learning process, it constitutes an attractive learning, which arouses the curiosity, enables business continuity and stimulates creativity by facilitating the construction of the written from the hypotheses. The interactive software aimed at literacy enables students to build relationships, think, raise and confront assumptions, especially regarding the error, it gives you an opportunity to reconstruct the solution process of the activity. This paper results from a study, which had as purpose to analyze educational software and its influence on the appropriation of literacy. Through a survey with a qualitative data were collected through systematic observations and actions during the lessons in the computer lab. The research process took place in a school of Public Education Network, with a class of 1st grade of elementary education of eight years. Following categories listed in the description of concurrent software chosen the analysis and processing of results demonstrated by the students. This analysis indicated that the activities of the software used present a constructivist bias, since most of the activities offered allow students to reconstruct their assumptions from its mistakes by making the way for significant learning.