Tecnologias de informação e comunicação na escola: possibilidades de desenvolvimento do pensamento crítico dos estudantes do ensino fundamental

Abstract

Public Education in Brazil, especially Basic Education, currently faces major challenges. In the context of the classroom, for example, it is evident that the teaching methodologies no longer correspond to the needs presented by an increasingly technologically advanced society. The mass media shows a growing role in the circulation of information, which can provoke questions about the importance and legitimacy of the school, as a space of knowledge construction. From this context, the present study aims to analyze the insertion of Information and Communication Technologies, through the Project "With The Voice: The Learner", in the different teaching and learning situations and their contributions to the development of critical thinking and autonomy of students of Elementary School, from a public school in the city of São Paulo. The study is an exploratory research, choosing in this investigation for the case study, in that data collection was carried out by means of bibliographical research, interviews and questionnaires, and the object of research focused on the project "With the Voice: The learner", developed on EMEF Father Leonel Franca, in São Paulo. The development of this project is from a macro project entitled EDUCOM.RÁDIO, designed and implanted in the municipal education network of São Paulo. It is concluded that projects that work in the perspective of Educommunication, with the focus on the integral formation of the subject, are able to achieve positive results, enabling the development of the student, as for a better expressive and communicative capacity and in the enlargement of the critical thinking and of autonomy.