Das máquinas de ensinar aos netbooks: tradição, inovação e tradução

Abstract

This study aims to focus on the "One Laptop per Child Program" (PROUCA), seeking to observe in the pedagogical practices of a municipal school in Rio de Janeiro processes of ressignification and recontextualization, undertaken in that space. The PROUCA is developed at the global level, but came to the schools of the city of Rio de Janeiro only in 2010, while the statewide network already had it at some schools longer. Based on authors such as McLaren (2000), Geertz (2008), André (2010), among others, from mid-2010 until the end of 2012, I developed an ethnographic research on the first school in Rio to receive PROUCA. With regard to methodological aspects, besides the systematic observation of everyday School Connects, I used resources such as informal conversations, were recorded and transcribed interviews, photographs, participation in school activities were used, in addition to collecting information on specific bibliographies and consultation on matters released by the official website of PROUCA and the One Laptop per Child (OLPC), which inspired the PROUCA site. Seek support in some of the theoretical and analytical contributions of Discourse Theory (TD) of Ernesto Laclau (2006, 2010, 2011, 2013) in order to provide subsidies for interpretation of significants that appeared in discourses that circulated in the spaces of conducting the research, relating them to the use of technology. In contact with the School, I observed the difficulties and the strategies developed to put into practice and use these devices both by the students as much by the teachers and the problems related to the production of a school curriculum that meets the current policy outcomes. These proposals are presented related to the idea of teaching innovation. So, trying to understand how this innovation performed, I focused the case of PROUCA and its discourse of digital inclusion, understanding it as a hybrid discourse that tries to fix itself as innovative.