Fetiche da tecnologia: um estudo sobre o perfil do pedagogo e os desafios da educação frente ao uso das redes sociais na sociedade contemporânea

Abstract

Contemporary society experiences transformations resulting from the evolution of information technologies, impacting on several sectors of society. Considering the educational scope as the space responsible for human relations with social networks, the work in question, derived from a course conclusion entitled "Challenges of education and the use of social networks in contemporary society", made use of methodological procedures from a qualitative-quantitative approach, as well as from bibliographic research. In this way, a questionnaire with objective and subjective questions was applied to a group of 30 subjects, in a training situation in progress or completed in the course (PEDAGOGIA / UFC), in order to draw a profile of the use of current social networks, by the pedagogue, aiming to evaluate them as teaching and learning tools. The data pointed out that there is a tension among pedagogues to use these tools in their teaching practices, even using them in their daily lives, due to the weaknesses of their respective academic formations and the abstention of the school to put itself as interlocutor of this debate on the digital culture . This becomes problematic in the current context in which we live, where life also happens in the social-digital sphere, causing numerous social problems, such as the spread of dangerous games and the challenges of the internet, among others, that need attention to be solved .