As tecnologias da informação e comunicação, a escola e os professores: elos entre concepções e práticas?

Abstract

This research seeks to understand the links and similarities between concepts and practices concerning the use of digital technologies in the school environment. It was intended to identify the present links which enable digital technologies to be appropriate in the teaching process within the school universe. The research makes use of current researches and studies on the beneficial uses of technology resources for education as the Open Educational Resources - REA - and the emergence of theories as Connectivism, presented by George Siemens (2008) and the concept Society of Knowledge by Castells (1999), Borges (2008), UNO (2003 and 2005), Dowbor (2013), as references that helped to reflect on digital technologies in the school environment. The qualitative research, on its objectives, is exploratory and used an open questionnaire, online model, intended for a group of 30 teachers who since 1990 (15 teachers) and 2000 (15 teachers) incorporate ICT in their teaching practices in public and private networks as an educational computing teachers. The results of the analysis suggest that four possible links that define the appropriation of ICTs are present in the school, as: tools, ICT teachers, compliance and retention. The proposed links here meant that the ICTs in recent decades to remain in school the same way they were designed and introduced in the school environment.