Tecnologias móveis na educação básica: o smartphone no processo de ensino e aprendizagem no contexto do Ensino Médio

Abstract

The present research is inserted in the Program of Masters in Education of the University of the West Paulista - UNOESTE, in line 2 - Qualification and Pedagogical Practice of the Teacher Profession. Through qualitative research, the objective was to analyze the potential of mobile technologies in the classroom, especially applications in smartphones, as tools that aid in the process of teaching and learning, in the scope of High School. The study was carried out in a private school, in the interior of Paraná, with 35 students from a class of high school graduates and two teachers. The theoretical reference was based on the works of Kenski, Moran, Santaella, Terçariol and Lévy. The techniques of data collection used were: observation, questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and focus groups. The data analysis was performed using methodological triangulation based on the following categories: a) in relation to student’s perception: access and use of mobile technologies; m-Learning and immediate feedback; m-Learning and teacher’s practice and b) in relation to the teachers: m-Learning: the teacher’s practice and it’s potentialities and challenges and; teacher’s formation and the m-Learning. The results showed that mobile technologies, specially the smartphone, are part of the daily life of the absolute majority of students and they use their mobile devices for various activities among them learning. In the learning process they emphasized the importance of the immediate feedback given by the applications, the advantages of technological incursions in the school environment such as access to large amounts of information and ubiquity. Teachers, in turn, recognize that mobile technology, especially smartphone applications, has potential to be used in the teaching process, however, emphasize the need to offer continuing education to the teacher and didactic-pedagogical and technological structuring by the schools.