A utilização pedagógica das salas de informática das escolas estaduais do Ciclo I da Diretoria de Ensino de Santo Anastácio SP

Abstract

This paper tries to analyze the pedagogical use of computer labs in five units of public school (from elementary to junior high school) related to Diretoria de Ensino de Santo Anastácio SP , those rooms were established since 2005. The research started from the inquiry that teachers of elementary level did not use the computer labs properly to teach their students, or almost did not use those places. Some of the teachers could not make a suitable link between computer sources and their educational curriculum. The methodology used was the case study, a qualitative and quantitative approach, the data came from questionnaires presented for 49 teachers, interviews with 53 students, and the analysis of the educational curriculum of the five schools involved in this research. From the data we could realize three categories: the computer labs under the teacher s point of view; the computer labs under the student s point of view, and the activities are prepared according to the computer labs purposes, and schools where these places are completely ignored.