O uso das tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TIC) na prática de professores de biologia

Abstract

In today's society, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are an important tool for innovation in the teaching and learning process. Thus, this course completion paper proposes to analyze the use of ICTs by Biology teachers from public elementary schools in a western Paraná municipality to investigate which ICTs are being used in Biology education. The methodology, of qualitative nature, consisted of the elaboration and application of a questionnaire organized in two parts, one about personal data and another about the knowledge and use of ICT. The questionnaire, approved by the Ethics Committee, was applied to four biology teachers of the State Education Network of a college in a city in western Paraná and two schools in the countryside near the city. The data constituted with the questionnaire were qualitatively analyzed through the content analysis methodology, which involves pre-analysis, material exploration and treatment of results. The results showed that teachers who had their academic training longer did not have knowledge about ICT in this period, but sought to specialize autonomously and through continuing education, while those who had more recent education studied about ICT. already at graduation. It can also be seen that teachers use information and communication technologies to make classes more attractive, interactive and more dynamic. Thus, it can be concluded that biology teachers are inserting ICT in their teaching practice mainly the computer, internet and multimedia projector and understand that the main reasons for using ICT are that they contribute to facilitate the teaching and learning process by making visual teaching with the presentation of videos and images and enabling the diversification of methodologies reflecting in more attractive and inclusive classes.