Resumen

SANTOS, Gilberto Lacerda. A internet na escola fundamental: sondagem de modos de uso por professores. Educ. Pesqui. [online]. 2003, vol.29, n.02, pp.287-301. ISSN 1517-9702.

The purpose of this investigation is to clarify the modes of use of the Internet in basic education settings at state and private schools of the Federal District. The research made a qualitative reading of the quantitative data obtained from questionnaires, interviews and direct observations. Twenty teachers were studied to reveal the way in which the contents made available through the Internet are being apprehended and used in the classroom, the kind of navigation of hypertexts that are being suggested to students, and a typology of the modalities of use of the Internet in education. Data indicate that there are four modes of navigation: random and linear; oriented and problematized; via the pedagogy of projects; through the hypertext creation approach. Data also point out that teachers are able to move forward to a more interesting use of the Internet as a means of teaching and learning, and that the school - with its rhythm and rites - constitutes a significant hindrance. Surely, there is widespread call for change. If students feel unease about the form and hermetic way in which educational practices have been conducted, which in actuality reveals itself as a systematic lack of interest in school, the same seems to happen to teachers, above all when they are asked by managers, parents, students and education theorists to adopt teaching attitudes they have not been prepared for.

Palabras clave : Internet in Education; Modalities of Use; Teaching.

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