Tecnologias e letramento digital entre estudantes da EJA em Dom Pedrito/RS: compreensões preliminares

Abstract

Since the second half of the last century, the world began to be impacted in an increasingly marked way by technological transformations within the scope of digital information systems, with implications for the ways of producing, working and living in society. In this scenario, education assumes an even greater role, both as a space capable of preparing people, born in an analogue world, to live in a world that is digitalizing at a constant speed and to deal with the formative process of a digital generation. Therefore, the main objective of this research was defined as investigating how EJA students face the challenges of technological advances and how this training can contribute to their daily lives and the teaching-learning process. To achieve this objective, a questionnaire was applied to EJA students in the municipality of Dom Pedrito/RS, asking 96 students, which allows us to state that the results presented have a 7% margin of error and a degree of confidence. of 95%. Among the main results, the predominance of a young audience stands out, with lower income and mostly informal insertion in the job market. Likewise, although the vast majority access the internet regularly, access conditions reproduce the identified social inequalities, given that they access networks with lower capacity and data transmission speeds, using smartphones as their main access tool. In these terms, at the same time that the majority report not facing difficulties with digital tools, a significant number of respondents state that they intend to take digital literacy courses, as well as that they justify returning to studies as a way of entering and/or qualifying for insertion. in the job market, so that it is inferred that the digital literacy available is minimally operational for accessing social networks, the main reported use of digital technologies, but insufficient as a qualification for the world of work. Through the research it was noticed that EJA students use technologies in different ways, they do not have access to the use of digital technologies in a pedagogical way, the use of these tools can change the lives of students and create expectations and opportunities for insertion in the digital world, prepare for the job market, which is increasingly demanding and competitive, it is recognized that technological advances have influenced society's way of living.