Percepções de professores da rede pública sobre o tablet educacional : um estudo de caso no DF

Abstract

This research is a result of a study which aims the perception and receptiveness of teachers who work at the public schools at Distrito Federal. The school chosen for the development of this research is located at Ceilandia and the main issue is the Educational Tablet as a pedagogical tool of acceptance on the part of those educators. The focus on this research is part of a the Digital Educational Project implemented by the Ministry of Education in Brazil (MEC) which is concerned about all high school teachers all over the country.During this investigation, the theoretical framework was based on the dichotomy existing into the mass culture aspects mentioned by ECO (1970); on the technological human being related to the changes showed during the usage of such new technologies as well as the human evolution proposed by FERKISS (1986). This paper also considered the theories which postulates issues considering the world transformation as a consequence of the usage of those technologies and the considerations that can be withdrawn from studies of CASTELS (2011). Another point to be considered is the dichotomy between the digital immigrants and non immigrants according to PRENSKY (2006) and the alliance between technology and learning competences PAPERT (2008).The study also considered the postulations of JENKINS (2009) in terms of explicit changes derived from technology and the studies of JORGE (2011) in relation to senses and perceptions towards the science of knowledge. The objective of this research is to express the opinion of those teachers in relation to Digital Technologies of Information and Communication (DTIC) and through the model known as UTAUT (Unified theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology) which was developed by Venkatesh et al. (2003) which objective was to expand the educator horizon as to place his/her identity into the digital society. This study is in line with a case study once its main objective is to deepen the questions mentioned above. Both the qualitative and quantitative methods were used, so it had supported on demonstrate the results. Questionnaires and interviews semi-structure were used for data collection and the results have shown that the educators place themselves into a critical and autonomous in relation to the usage of the Digital Tablet. Nonetheless, it was observed that indecision is a factor that is continues present when related to the importance of technology in the process of learning and acquisition. Such controversy reflects little or almost non-acceptance to the technological tool. Regarding the proposed model, the study has show its importance for the educators practice nowadays. Regarding the UTAUT method, four constructs were validated: a) Competence/Performance; b) Expectation of Effortless; c) Social Influence and d) Facilitating Conditions Finally, the research has shown that the facilitating conditions led to the usage of the Tablet; for this reason, the research implies future contributions for future studies which is focused into the value of technology in ...