Formação continuada de professores e as tecnologias de informação e comunicação: as possibilidades de acesso dos alunos como balizadores de projetos pedagógicos

Abstract

Current academic literature considers teacher’s’ initial formation as dated and insufficient. Continuing formation process is necessary to approach themes which have been treated superficially. Continuing formation based in information and communication technologies (ICT) allows building formation process based in the pedagogic reality. Teachers can be encouraged to build theirs practices throw cooperative and collaborative ways. To build this kind of pedagogical practices is necessary to know students reality, so this study objective is to determinate the students’ access possibility to ICT as a way to guiding educational projects. The study object was a single middle School of São Paulo state. Throw digital form the students respond to 9 question about theirs use of ICT. The procedure was conducted at the class time. The obtained data was organized throw descriptive statistics, the resultant reflections was based in the teachers’ formation current academic literature. The students affirm to own: cellphone (88.38%); cellphone internet (47%); notebook (43%); tablet (28%); desktop (47%); internet (90%); e-mail (84%); access possibility to LAN house (69%). The students affirm aboute their use of internet: social networking (78.84%); chatting (68.46%); games (75.52%); newspapers and magazines (9.13%); videos, shows, music, movies (86.72%); scholar´s researches (72.61%). Only in cell phone internet (16.56%) and access possibility to LAN house (22.86%) was possible to observe increase in between sixth grade and nineth grade. In the other items weren´t found any tendency. ICT are part of the students day to day activities, cell phones mostly, so teachers could and should use then in school activities. Data collected helps to plan pedagogic projects with these technologies.