Plataforma digital ON: espaço de formação para os professores da educação básica

Abstract

The work with Information and Communication Technologies (from original TDICs in Portuguese) in Basic Education was configured as a challenging theme, in the face of a world with great and rapid transformations. Due to the increasingly marked presence of TDICs in the social and school context, studies were needed aimed at understanding, knowing and making everyone involved aware of the importance of correct use and objectivity in favor of an innovative, efficient and pleasant education, i.e., it is necessary to think about pedagogical practices in favor of the construction of students’ knowledge and social transformation. The current Brazilian educational system should not be left out of this fluidity present in today’s society, since the challenges are immense and need attention to monitor and appropriate the progress that permeates the globalized, informational and connected world. Therefore, the present work has the general objective of studying, understanding and explaining how the ON digital platform contributed to the construction of active and significant knowledge of students in the 1st and 2nd years of Elementary School at a state school in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. So, it presents two basic problems: 1. What is the understanding of the professors of this institution about the use of TDICs as a teaching and learning resource? 2. How is it possible to promote the intentionality of using the ON digital platform as a driving tool in the construction of knowledge? Thus, this research adopted a qualitative, bibliographic and field approach, with analysis of works by authors who discuss the theme, such as Moran (2007), Kenski (2012), Bacich and Moran (2018), Gómez (2015), Antunes and Pinto (2018), Castells (2020), Bauman (2001) and Chauí (1994); and the field research, in which 12 teachers from the 1st and 2nd years of Elementary School of the aforementioned educational establishment were selected to answer a questionnaire with information on the themes of TDICs in education and on the ON digital platform adopted by the institution. In view of the collected data, this universe was understood, making it possible to build tutorials to boost and improve the use of the tool in question.