Informática na educação: o uso das tecnologias na prática docente

Abstract

This article discusses the use of new technologies in the school context, more specifically on the use of informatics as a tool in the teaching and learning process. And in this case, the teacher is the intermediary motivator of this learning, the same needs to be open the changes of paradigms. The use of media in the educational context comes to innovate the old methods of teaching and learning, since it allows access to extremely attractive virtual environments for children, teenagers and young people. Thus, the present article was based on a theme of the school curriculum, which is the gaucho culture, where texts were worked, researches in newspapers, magazines, videos, and participation of families in the making of toys, dances, performances After a learning object was elaborated, where students were able to create tales from their experiences and apprenticeships, and finally contribute to the quantitative research that was consolidated with the participating classes of 4th and 5th year of the Brother Quintino School in Santa Maria-RS. Through the creation of these tales by the students, one can observe the concepts such as language, formation of words and phrases, verbal and nominal concordances, orthographic difficulties, as well as the motivation of students in the construction of stories and in the use of Learning Object For the research, questionnaires were used, and it was concerned with the qualitative contribution that informatics, through the object of learning, could offer students in the process of acquiring knowledge.