Tecnologias da informação e comunicação nas aulas de geografia: seus usos no ensino fundamental II nas escolas públicas estaduais de Uberlândia-MG

Abstract

This research aimed to analyze the use of Information and Communication Technology - ICT in State Public Schools of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais. Its uses and applications for Geography Teachers final years of Secondary School, the research was conducted in a school central urban area, and choose the school was made after survey of 17 of the 54 schools of the State Public Network Uberlândia, MG, in order to know what possessed Computer Lab and the same were being used by their teachers. To find out if the schools had computer labs, and used ICT, we used the direct search method with questionnaire and interview to be answered by the directors of the schools and the participating teachers who actually did use ICT in their lessons. First we performed a study of quantitative data of computer equipment and then made the qualitative survey regarding the use by Geography teachers. This work presents the concepts and the history of technology; Information Technology existing in state schools of Uberlândia, and its use by professionals in the education and methodologies for using ICT as well as the difficulties encountered in implementation in the room during the Geography lessons