Utilização das tecnologias educacionais nas escolas da rede estadual da cidade de Umuarama-PR

Abstract

This research has as general objective to analyze the use of the educational technologies for the teachers of the state, of the first fourth series of the fundamental teaching in Umuarama city -Pr and to verify which are their conceptions of the use of those technologies. We verified that in spite of the contribution brought by the researches already accomplished until the moment about the educational technologies, still scarce the investigations that have tried to analyze the use of educational technological resources in schools of fundamental teaching, specially in the first fourth series of that teaching level. The study is characterized as a field research. The used methodological procedures included: direct observations, accomplished at eight schools from 1st to 4th grades, of the fundamental teaching; interviews half-structured, accomplished with the eight directors and 32 teachers selected for the study. We verified that the analyzed schools have different technological resources. When analyzed together, it is verified that quantitatively the computer appears in first place: at all was 46 available computers in the 08 schools. After the TVs, come (23), the printers (19), the radios (18), the videocassettes (17), the tape recorders (09), parabolic antennas (06) and the internet points (03). However, we observed that the equipments are located in sections that let doubt to your pedagogic destination as: principal s room, school s clerkship, coordination s room and even though snack bar. We verified, that in the eight investigated schools the pedagogic use is more concentrated in the videocassette, TV, radio and tape recorder, in spite some schools possess also computer science laboratories. Only 04 schools have computers destined to the pedagogic use, one computer for each school. The conceptions of the interviewed teachers' majority, regarding the Educational Technology, express simplistic and limited understandings about this. Most of the teachers sketched character definitions strictly instrumental-technician and an utilitarist visions regarding the TE. Those data made we concluded that the schools of the state in Umurama city -PR, need deep changing in the organization, and even though the formulation, of your pedagogic political projects.