Análise do projeto sala de informática móvel nas escolas da Rede Municipal de Educação de Belo Horizonte

Abstract

This work aimed to analyze the Mobile Computer Room (SIM – Sala de Informática Móvel) project that was established as a pilot study in 2011 in three schools from the Municipal Education Schools of Belo Horizonte (RME-BH), in order to understand the process of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) integration in teachers’ practicing. The work was developed at the Professional Post-graduate Program in Management and Public Education Evaluation of the Public Policy and Education Evaluation Center from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora,. The SIM project consisted of a wireless network infrastructure installing and the use of mobile computers that enabled the use of such equipments in a classroom or at other school sites. The project was designed to enable schools with not enough physical space to have access to computer room resources. The survey adopted a qualitative methodology, and the data collection involved a documentary analysis of two reports designed in the years of 2011 and 2013, for project monitoring purposes. It also provided questionnaires to teachers and interviews with managers. Data analysis showed that teachers yearn for innovative methods to use in their classes development and hope to integrate ICT into their practicing; however, they do not feel prepared. There was a lack of support by the ones responsible for the schools management team, that seem not to be clear about how to have a meaningful use of the ICT. This shows that there is a need for a closer monitoring from the municipal office and the regional education managers in the schools, and it also should offer a continuing education program that would take into account, besides specific aspects of the pedagogical use of ICT, the SIM specificities, in order to ensure that computing resources provided by this project would be integrated into teachers practicing inside classroom. In order to soften and, perhaps, solve the highlighted problems, an Educational Action Plan was proposed, consisting of the following: teachers and administrators training; experience sharing environment for all RME-BH teachers and managers; an ICT pedagogical use annual seminar within education.