O acesso e o uso das TICs pelas crianças e adolescentes em situação de vulnerabilidade social na CEFASOL

Abstract

This Undergraduate Thesis (UT) was based on the experiences that took place during curricular internship in Social Service, in a non-profit Catholic organization. The UT adresses in its context how the use and access of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) takes place for the Brazilian population in a socially vulnerable situation, specially users, children and teenagers, of the institution Centro de Referência Familiar Recanto do Sol (Cefasol) that didn’t have contact with ICTs. It was sought out to highlight how important it is for users to be in contact with these Technologies that could bring benefits along life, not just for leisure and communication, but also as a source of information for knowledge development. During this Thesis it was presented how the technologies came to be and their historical context until current days. Technology in a capitalist society revolves around consumerism, in contrast to appropriation, from the learning/knowledge that these technological resources provide, favoring partially the social and digital exclusion of users. During the curricular internship it was developed a digital inclusion intervention Project for a group of students, this intervention had the objective of bringing knowledge and information of proper use of computers and internet to children and teenagers, and through this technological resource they would be able to make use of a variety of information, as well as be aware of and demand their own rights as citizens. This Project put forth in Cefasol did not obtain its expected results due to setbacks that the institution faced, which prevented working with the selected group according to schedule, making it so the students still had a restricted access and knowledge about the ICTs. This digital inclusion Project was not enough so that the users would be included in society, being necessary that the institution seek new ways/projects making use of the resources they already have in such way to enable children and teenagers to a continuing technological education, and, therefore, prepare them for their social and digital inclusion in society.