EducaLauncher: uma nova proposta para o uso de tecnologias em sala de aula

Abstract

Technological advances brought several changes in our lives, facilitating and improving products and services, however with regard to education, difficulties are still perceived in the integration of new digital technologies in pedagogical practice. Sometimes, computer equipment in schools can be noticed without conditions of use and lack of attention, this can be one of the reasons that teachers feel unmotivated to look for new digital tools to complement the teaching. An alternative to this problem is the use of smartphones, in the classroom, to explore applications that can help teachers and students in teaching practice. As a result, there is a need to restrict some functionalities of the mobile device, aiming to make it an exclusively educational tool and one should also think about a simplified environment for facilitating the use by teachers and students. The present work sought to carry out a survey of educator’s needs and based on this propose the development of a software that in the future can be used to transform smartphones into educational tools. The result was the development of a Launcher prototype capable of organizing smartphones applications into categories for use in the classroom.