A formação de professores para uso de mídias na educação

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the extent to which state public schools in the city of Porto Alegre (RS) have offered continuing education courses for their teachers on the use of media in education. Through readings carried out during the Postgraduate course in Media Education at the Federal University of Pampa/Universidade Aberta do Brasil, we can reflect on the insertion of the media in the school context, recognizing that it is not a new phenomenon, but with evident 1 Professora na rede estadual de ensino da cidade de Porto Alegre, RS, formada em Letras - Português/Espanhol e suas respectivas Literaturas na Universidade Federal do Pampa (UNIPAMPA). signs of resistance on the part of teachers or the school community regarding the use of technologies, perhaps because they do not understand the real meaning of their use in education. This is what our research will try to show. The theoretical framework for this analysis was based on the readings made among those indicated by the professors during the course. We carried out a survey through a questionnaire with eight questions that were sent to teachers of the state education network in the city of Porto Alegre (RS), between the months of January and February of this year. Based on the answers obtained by the teachers, we analyzed what they had to tell us about the training courses, their accessibility and their use of technologies in a pedagogical way in classrooms. Our research seeks to contribute to more work in this area and also to show the importance of this type of training course for teachers.