Professores e a utilização das tecnologias digitais interativas: perspectivas para a sala de aula

Abstract

It was desired to investigate in this displayed research how teachers who work in public schools of Pelotas - RS express themselves in regard to the use of interactive digital technologies in their classes. Technology is known to be increasingly present in everyday life and to provoke significant changes in the way people t hink and act in the school environment. Therefore, this research aims at comprehending the teachers’ pedagogical proposal when making use of these technologies to develop content in their classrooms. For some authors, technology is considered to be a resource used in order to solve problems if needs be. Inside the classroom, however, there could be a different perspective. Through quasi-structured interviews with 4 public school teachers, it is perceived that, promptly, most times, the teachers are not able to use any kind of interactive technology. Either because the schools do not share the contact of the students that have gadgets available to them, or because the teachers themselves are uncertain about how to make use of technology in a way that their content is relevant and engaging for the students. What happens is that in spite of the schools giving access to spaces with an array of technological gadgets and access to the internet (such as computer labs, laptops, tablets), the teachers are still making use of these devices as tools for presenting a given content, displaying images, or even showing content in video format in order to facilitate it for the students. This does not show a significant pedagogical proposal that makes the use of interactional digital technologies a plus for the acquisition of these contents. It has been observed that discussions regarding the use of interactional digital technologies and how to transform them into an important didactic resource are still far from schools and their teachers.