O uso do computador como instrumento de leitura para aquisição do conhecimento: um estudo de caso

Abstract

This dissertation aims at studying the importance of continuing education work, aiming at the efficient use of research sources in the current society and its implications on the degree of literacy of individuals. Focusing on the use of the computer as a tool for learning, this research wants to reflect the role of new technologies in building the knowledge of the students. As an introduction, a number of characteristics of the information society of the twenty-first century, the political actions that attempt to ensure efficient use of research tools available and the role of schools and professors in this new context of education. Then, we deepen the reflections on the peculiarities of reading in virtual environments and the implications of computer use in the Brazilian schools. In the methodological chapter, we show the context in which the research was developed to question the theme, we detail how to characterize the study, explained, still, as it gave the pilot problematization of the subject, we detail as if it characterizes the study, we explain, still, as they had given to the collection pilot and definitive collection. Based on the contributions of Applied Linguistic, with regard to reading, to analyze a work of continuing education in order to raise the level of literacy of students, allows more efficient use of the computer while reading support. As a result, it is possible to reflect on some necessary actions for the use of the new technologies in education to be successful. These reflections are important at a time when computer literacy has been object of concern of educators, schools and of government