Inovação tecnológica no portal do professor (MEC): multimídia nas aulas de língua portuguesa

Abstract

The subject of this research is technological innovation at Portal do Professor (Teacher Portal, by the Brazilian government). We aim at analyzing three lessons of Portuguese (mother tongue) to verify whether their multimedia resources (animation, hypertext and video) support teaching and, in case of inconsistency, to present suggestions that might contribute to integrate technology into teaching. Our methodological approach was both quantitative and qualitative. In our quantitative research, we listed all the Portuguese lessons, with or without multimedia resources, aimed at elementary education on Portal do Professor. Our qualitative research started with a pilot study in which ten lessons with multimedia resources were analyzed. From those ten lessons, we selected three to describe and analyze. We verified that there was, indeed, technological innovation in the three lessons. However, technology and language teaching were not intertwined. Multimedia resources, in this case, did not innovate or complement teaching, as recommended by PCN (Brazilian curricular parameters).