As tecnologias da informação e comunicação no ensino de Geografia : formação e prática docente

Abstract

The history of the language and communication along the evolutionary path of the human, being had its constitution invariably permeated by technique and technology, with the invention of devices for interactive communication and led to the development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), which from the second half of the 20th century became, a major advance communicational and informational use by increasingly extensive communicational devices in digital format. With the emergence of Information Technology and the Internet in the 1970s it was found that the constitution of a Society as Network architecture based on the transmission of information in which the subject is a \"node\" in a web of relations and digital interactive with extensive use of the technique and technology. The ICT in this Society Network contribute to important changes in thinking space, culture and society. In this context, the Education in the perspective of teacher training are impacted by the inclusion of ICT in the university and school. The training of teachers in Geography is integrated in this scenario for the processing of technical nature, theoretical-methodological and teaching with respect to the use of ICT in teaching this school discipline. The professors who are challenged to modify their teaching practice, in the direction of providing the students of the undergraduate course in Geography of Universidade Federal de Uberlandia - UFU, the opportunity of a full training in which the preparation is interdisciplinary and the theory-practice includes methodologies for the use of ICT.