Avaliação do uso de laboratórios informatizados em escolas públicas de Santa Maria

Abstract

This work was a study about information technology in public schools from Santa Maria city. It was used a sample, obtaining a minimal one of 303 teachers, divided proportionally in 214 teachers of eight state schools chosen by chance and 89 teachers of 10 municipal schools. The objective of this work is to show what there are in terms of projects related to information technology nowadays and to compare these with the reality of this resource in public schools in Santa Maria. 55.60% of the principals interviewed were from municipal schools, and 44.40% were from state schools. It was possible to observe that eight (of 10) municipal schools do not have classrooms with computers, whereas five (of eight) state schools have that. And the majority of the schools, which have that, has just one computer. The research shows that the majority of the schools analyzed works in three shifts (61.11%), has less than 50 teachers and less than 500 students. 21.76% from the state teachers do not have possibility to learn about information technology and 21.30% have access to it just in their schools, even though the majority of teachers has computer at home (157). However, from the municipal teachers, 28.88% do not have access to this resource; 27.78% have at most three ours per day for it, and the majority of them has computer at home (56). The main problem to learn how to use information technology in education is the lack of computer, 19.04% in state schools and 26.13% in municipal schools. The majority of state teachers (71.50%) and of municipal teachers (61.80%) have already used the Internet and see it as a way to research in classrooms. Almost all teachers (66.70%) know some institution which encourages, through courses, teachers to work with this resource in education. There are no doubts that if the information technology is used for a good education, which helps teachers to be aware of their way to teach and offers financial resources, what would be just a dream could become a reality.