Estudos investigativos sobre a influência das novas tecnologias na educação e na qualidade de vida dos adultos

Abstract

This study investigated the influence of New Information Technologies and Communication in adult education, and how these technologies can contribute to improve the quality of their lives. Two different types of audiences were considered. First we analyzed chemistry and physics teacher's training courses in blended mode, offered by the Federal University of Ceará. This group is composed by students aged 25 to 50 years. The second audience is composed by elderly people from their sixties. They are students from elementary and secondary education at a public school in the city of Crateús. These students are working on digital technologies as one of the subjects studied in elementary and secondary education so as to complete their studies. The elderly groups had their performance observed while they were faced to the new technologies. It was also considered the importance of these new technologies in the quality of their lives. In addition to the two groups already mentioned, a group of participants from the Longevity Center, developed by the School of Law of the Federal University of Ceará, was also observed. The new information technologies for older adults developed on the education scene, are applied in order to insert them into society, using these media resources to aid not only in education but also in the daily lives of students in third age.