A gestão escolar na utilização do tablet-PC como ferramenta de apoio pedagógico nas escolas estaduais do Araripe pernambucano

Abstract

Information and communication technologies have made possible the processes that gave configuration to the world we live in today and its use in all sectors, including in education, is a reality that appears to trend only to growth and improvement. In Pernambuco, in 2011, the Government created the Connected Student program, aiming to provide, free of charge, to high school students from the state's public school network, so they use it as a permanent teaching support tool, individually, inside and outside the school environment, a technological tool called the tablet-PC, which, according to your user's manual, is a netbook. This study aims to analyze the actions of school management concerning the use of the tablet-PC as a tool for pedagogical support, within the framework of State schools do Araripe Pernambuco and, for this, held interviews with the school directors of State schools jurisdicionadas the 16th GRE Sertão do Araripe and used the technique of content analysis to analyze your data. Is a survey of exploratory nature, qualitative approach. The results reveal that in most schools the search field are developing activities in the tablet-PC is used as educational tool and in some of these schools the school directors claim to act through the planning, guidelines or even control the use, but in another part of these schools, school directors say not to get involved with this work , leaving it to the criteria of teachers and, in some cases, teachers along with the pedagogical team. This study is based on the practices of the subjects surveyed in a universe of research is in cutting from a broader social universe and leads to the conclusion that it is not so simple for the school management to mediate a rapprochement between the daily activities of the school and this reality that delineates, in your environment, by the student access to the technological tool tablet-PC.