Análise das percepções de professores do ensino fundamental sobre as potencialidades e os desafios da utilização do Projeto Educopédia na educação

Abstract

Starting from the comprehension that there is an increasing mobilization in order to integrate Information Communication Technologies in education through a variety of policy and programs that are developed in national extent, this work has the objective of discussing the potentialities and the challenges of the application of the “Educopédia” Project from the vision of the elementary Municipal School teachers of Rio de Janeiro. The “Educopédia” Project - the use of a platform of digital content - was introduced by the Municipal Secretary of Education in the year of 2010 as an effort to improve the quality of teaching and to turn it pleasant and at the same time, efficient for children and teens. The research was done among five teachers of the public Municipal Schools of Rio de Janeiro. They answered a half open questionnaire after an exposition about the “Educopédia” Project, done by the author of this work. It was concluded that the asked teachers, in a whole, point to importance of a projection to the appropriation of new technologies not only in pedagogical aspects but also in considering the context elements of the educational actions and also the wider subjects of policy. The social and pedagogical relevance of technologies depends on the context where it is introduced, on the participation and involvement of the actors, on the permanence of the adopted policy, on the options for each unity define its own project for the use of ICTs, on the definition of responsibilities for all the involved instances and, mainly, on the qualification of teachers an use of proper instruments of accompaniment and evaluation.