Uso das tecnologias da informação e da comunicação por professores do ensino fundamental municipal de Itaqui

Abstract

Actually, technological advances coupled with the emergence of information technology and communication (ICT's) are promoting changes in contemporary society. The advancement of ICTs was mainly with the wide use of the internet has revolutionized the way of communication between people. In recent years, there has been a transition from classical media (newspaper, photography, cinema, radio and television) for online media (mouse, touch screen, joystic, keyboard, etc). The ICTs are widespread in all sectors, causing a change in labor relations. In the education area was no different, as it provided a great change in the form of teaching and learning. The schools now have computer labs and promote digital inclusion. In this context, during the learning process the student ceases to be passive to actively participate in the process. ICTs emerging in this new scenario of education, as a tool to help teachers in their teaching. The teacher ceases to be a transmitter of knowledge to become stimulating the curiosity of the student. Thus, this research has qualitative and quantitative character. We analyzed through a case study, the use of information technologies and communication by teachers of municipal schools in Itaqui / RS. For this, there was the application of a questionnaire with fifty open and closed questions in five municipal schools in the city. At the end of the study it was found that although schools have a good technological apparatus, only a few teachers in the municipal primary school use the ICTs as an instrument to facilitate the teaching-learning process. There is a considerable group of teachers who have difficulties in the use of ICTs because they unkwon the potential of these technologies for their educational practice.