O uso dos dispositivos móveis para mediar as práticas educativas: um estudo bibliográfico

Abstract

This study, exploratory-descriptive study aims to analyze the scientific production on the use of mobile devices in education in different areas of knowledge. The study adopted as a premise the methodological literature and developed through the analysis of 11 theses and 7 theses, which were selected from the keywords: Mobile learning, mobile technologies in education, mobile devices in higher education, digital technologies and mobile learning, the portal of Scientific Journals of Capes and Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD). In accordance with the analyzed sample, the largest number of papers on the topic under study are concentrated in universities in the Southeast region, belonging to graduate programs in education, if setting up while searching for field studies, produced in their great majority in public universities. In general, it was found that the use of mobile devices in education is presenting with a theme of enough breath to be discussed. The worked analyzed point to the need of implementing strategies for use of mobile devices in education, as well as highlight the importance of teacher training, the conditions in infrastructure and the curriculum in the educational institutions to which the mobile devices may, in fact, contribute significantly to the process of teaching and learning.