Unindo a informática à aula de história

Abstract

This paper set up by studying the possibility of joining the computer to the teaching of the discipline of history in the context of Colégio X, for the classes of 6th and 7th grade of elementary school. The investigation guided in making a verbal interview with the teacher of matter and observation of classes in the computer lab, checking how the research activities in the history area were carried by the teacher and realized by students. This study aimed to verify if there was an elementary use of information technologies in the teaching context and that the computers were characterized as an effective pedagogical tool for learning, which was, in fact, the purpose of this analysis. However, it is concluded that, unfortunately, the computer has been used even incidental manner in the teaching of history, due to problems such as the socioeconomic aspects of the students, the lack of preparation of teachers and the teaching staff and the lack of maintenance and appropriate number of computers in the laboratory. This monograph was also timely because, by recurring to the bibliography for structuring the theoretical part, there was restricted literary framework of actual practices on how to integrate information technology to teaching history. This requires the need of the enterprise, for areas such as Systems Development, for example, initiatives of this nature, which would have facilitated the training of teachers and the process of teaching and learning in general. For the design of this monograph was by reference to theoretical studies as Kincheloe (1997), Lucena and Fuks (2000), Moura (2009) and others.