A Internet na educação: concepções de discentes e docentes sobre o seu uso

Abstract

This qualitative research aimed to analyze the conceptions of students and teachers on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), in particular the use of the Internet and its contributions to the improvement of learning in a public school in the town of Teodoro Sampaio - SP -. The specificity of the study object approached the approach for the definition of a case study involving bibliographic research, desk research and field work. The data were obtained through semi-structured interviews with 10 students and 5 teachers from the school selected for this research. The central concern was to seek identify qualitatively how and to what extent such use has been able to help achieve the objectives proposed above. From the survey of the theoretical framework and the data collected content analysis was used in an attempt to raise and discuss some of the elements involved in pedagogical work of the teachers with the Internet and some difficulties encountered by them in the course of the work in computer room, aiming at, from the analysis of a specific reality, contribute to the improvement of the educational process as a whole in our country. What we see in our research and the existence of a large paradox: on one side we have a society immersed in the immense ocean of information that the Internet has presented us with a great number of children using the ICT from the cradle in his personal life, on the other hand we have a school - to which these children are sent - that still develops practices of the past century, because the prey due to tractional structures remain closed the rapid innovations, as is the case of information and communication technologies.Before the results of our research, we believe that we need renewing, and we need to surrender to methods that add to our classes, which stimulate our students to participate them, making with that see the importance of the content, and feel the relationship between theory and practice, they comply to the interdisciplinarity in the classroom and that, above all, feel within the learning process.