A utilização das tecnologias da informação e comunicação na prática de docentes do município de José Bonifácio - SP

Abstract

The present study is fruit of a research in which we investigated the comprehension that public school teachers have towards the use of computers in teaching. In this perspective we investigated the contexts, processes, factors, computational resources availability and the results of the educational computing introduction in schools. The data analysis and discussions were based on the theoretical contributions that subside the emergent educational paradigm, specially towards computers in teaching and teachers formation. It is a qualitative research which involved the practice and computer acquaintance of one pedagogic coordinator and eight elementary school teachers of a public school in the city of José Bonifácio, state of São Paulo. The research actions were developed in six two-hour meetings and eighteen hours of distant work (online), completing thirty hours. For this a distant teaching gallery called TelEduc was used. In order to collect the data we used structured questionnaires, reflexive meetings and the fulfillment of activities in the distant teaching environment. The analysis of the information led to the conclusion that the lack of ability with computers and the absence of a computational use planning characterized an obstacle in the application of the Computational Environment Room (CER).