O uso das tecnologias educacionais: em foco o computador como ferramenta na Escola Estadual de Ensino Infantil e Fundamental Américo Souza de Oliveira

Abstract

This course completion work aims to map the use of educational technologies focusing on the Computer as an Educational Tool in the State School of Early Childhood Education and Fundamental Américo Souza De Oliveira. And, therefore, the specific objectives of analyzing the use of the computer among the educational technologies existing in the selected School; as well as to investigate whether teachers filled out in the Computer Laboratory of this Educational Unit regularly carry out training and improvement courses to carry out the function as a computer teacher; identify whether classroom teachers make use of the technological resources available at the school and whether these resources exist for the teaching and learning of students. For this purpose, two field surveys were applied in the institution, one focused on the students (closed questionnaire) and the other on the teachers (semi-structured), seeking to investigate on the use of the computer as an educational tool to support the classes of these education professionals and relating their pedagogical practices to the theories of the authors that underpinned this work. Therefore, we present the discussion of the results obtained from the use of tables and graphs generated after the treatment of the data, followed by the comments made according to the knowledge acquired through the bibliographic studies according to the authors already mentioned. Which have been discussed by several researchers from the insertion of information technology and its technologies in the field of education as tools to support teaching, given the transformations they have brought to society, not being different in the school environment. Important authors of the areas of computer science and its technologies and education, such as Valente, Kenski, Tajra, Masetto and others, were used, as they contributed to theoretically base the study and the analysis in this work. According to data collection, the study and analysis of the same in the research, the School under study is well structured, however, it faces difficulties such as the lack of technological qualification of the teachers, lack of maintenance in the computer lab, lack of incentive of Governmental Organs to teachers for use of these laboratories, among other issues that will be addressed in the course of the work.