Inclusão digital: escolas conectadas no município de Esteio/RS

Abstract

Considering public investments in the promotion of digital inclusion, this article aims to analyze the digital inclusion of students in public schools in the city of Esteio-RS, through the implementation of the Sala Conectada (SC) project. Being studied what are the future perspectives of the use of the connected room and what are the needs for improvements in the project, seeking to answer this question, interviews were carried out with managers of 3 schools in the studied municipality, as well as a documentary analysis of public programs in technologies in 9,204, of November 23, 2017, which institutes the Connected Education Innovation Program (Brazil, 2017) and later Law No. Connected Education” (Brazil, 2021). Through the analysis of the data obtained from the interview with the managers, it was observed that despite the instrumentalization and acquisition of equipment that the project provided, and that are being used in the schools studied, there was no adequate training for teachers, nor effective participation of them. in the process of creating teaching-learning methodologies that promote the inclusion of students, requiring greater investment and research in these areas.