Abordagem crítica de robótica educacional: Àlvaro Vieira Pinto e estudos de ciência, tecnologia e sociedade

Abstract

With purpose of stimulate one critical and conscientious education while the computation tends to ubiquity, this text proposes that robotics at schools observes social and engaged questions about technology, like the opening of black boxes and more visibility of objects from the point of view of the conscious and active contact with the devices and components that pervades the actual environments. To this end, this dissertation discusses a critical view of use of devices for educational purposes, especially of free resources here considered more suitable for the open view of technology than those with purely commercial objectives. This paper presents elements inspired by works of the philosopher Álvaro Vieira Pinto, by Studies of Science, Technology and Society and by other authours traditionally associated with educational robotics. This paper discusses critically the educational robotics and, in a general level, the use of technological artifacts in education. Considering that there are free and open elements suitable for the practice of robotics in schools, this work prefers conceptual discussions to stimulate a critical, engaged, less alienated view about the devices used in education.