O uso das tecnologias digitais de informação e comunicação no processo de letramento digital de professores: uma proposta de intervenção

Abstract

The research “The Use of Digital Technologies of Information and Communication in the process of teacher digital literacy: a proposal of intervention” is included into the macro project “Interaction in the classroom - teachers, students and the technology” in the scope of PROFLETRAS – UFJF. It has a central axis on the official documents which rule the education and their perspectives about the technology inclusion in education. The main aims of this research were to analyze the beliefs and perception of teachers from a state school in the city called Divino about the use of TDIC and to develop actions to downplay teachers’ opposition towards the use of technologies in the educational context. In order to accomplish it, a questionnaire was used to detect the use of digital technology and services from Web 2.0 in the professional and personal context of the teachers as well as their opinion about the technology potentials in the school environment. The qualitative analyses of the data has detected that, although the teachers were conscious about the technology potential as a pedagogic tool, the educators have said that they have limited competence and low knowledge about how to use the technology in the learning-teaching process. They have also stated they need a continuous training in the TDIC area. In order to tackle these barriers, interventional workshops were offered based on collaborative action-research. During these activities, some available tools in the web were shown and tested in the school context. As a consequence, it was perceived a greater involvement presented by teachers concerning the use of technology in their professional activities and the digital literacy in that school community has aroused.