A prática pedagógica e as tecnologias da informação e da comunicação nas aulas de Biologia: um olhar sobre duas escolas públicas mineiras

Abstract

This research emerged from the interest and curiosity to investigate the use of technologies in educational practices in Biology classes and how they are employed in order to contribute to learning. In this perspective we counted on the participation of three Biology teachers of the Medium Level that teach in State public schools at Uberlândia-MG. We intended to investigate the way pedagogical practices of Medium Level Biology teachers have met the demands of the contemporary society for schools. The research s objective was to analyze how Information and Communication Technologies have been used by teachers of two Medium Level Public Schools at Uberlândia-MG. In order to achieve our objectives, we selected schools where the school s principal and the teachers wanted to participate of the research. We defined two schools: one that participates of the Project School-Reference and the other one that does not participate of that project. The teachers were selected according to the following criteria: they are State employees, teach for the Medium Level and, especially for the first grade of that level, in which the introduction of the Project School-Reference was being implemented at the time of the field research. The methodology used was the direct observation of the classes that ware recorded. Besides, interviews and conversations were accomplished as well as recordings in a field diary, analysis of documents of the schools and the activities developed by the teachers were done. The analysis allowed us to understand that new technology tools are arriving to the schools, but schools have not been modified in the same speed that production and use of technologies happen in society. Because of that we observed students lack of interest during the classes. They used electronic devices such as mobile phones and MP3, what led to dispersion. We also verified that the teachers have become not motivated with the way these technologies are present in the schools, many times not using them. We also know that these procedures are not only responsibility of the school, but of the State Secretary of Education, Universities, teachers, and the School Management as well, in order to promote changes in the teaching reality when it refers to the use of technologies in the pedagogic practice of the Biology teaching.