O mundo através da tela - estudantes da educação básica na era da entropia informacional

Abstract

The research developed in this doctoral thesis has as its central theme the use of digital technological tools by adolescents in elementary education. The main objective of this work is to understand how students use technological tools, such as computers, notebooks and, especially, smartphones, and what are the implications of time spent on digital devices (especially on social media) in the lives and learning of students between 14 and 16 years old. As a methodology, two forms of data collection were used in two basic education schools, with different social realities, in the city of Juiz de Fora-MG: online form and text productions. . To analyze and discuss what these students think about technology and its consequences, we used the IRAMuTeq software and theories linked to content analysis in order to trace the frequencies of occurrences in word clouds and similarity analysis. The results obtained in both analyses demonstrate that i) students from both schools consume, in a very similar way, applications and digital tools through their smartphones, as well as have similar usage times; ii) the groups of students from the two schools have different understandings of technology, its importance and, mainly, its consequences. These data reinforce the importance and need for schools to develop digital and critical literacy projects on the use of digital tools in a computerized world immersed in informational entropy.