A Informática Educativa no Município de Floriano-PI: Um Estudo de Caso

Abstract

The present work investigates the practices of Educational Informatics (EI) in the city of Floriano, in Piauí, through the qualitative research of case study, using the exploratory and descriptive approaches, in which I applied a questionnaire and accomplished interviews, for understanding to be this the most appropriate and effective method for this study type. Thus, a fact of finding was done to identify the schools that acted in EI, in the referred city, which just indicated a compatible school with the criteria demanded for the selection of the sample. The school is a private one with teaching for Elementary and High levels, in whit I observed the classes in the Laboratory of Educational Informatics (LEI), from March to October of 2004, classes from 1st to 3rd grades, with the objective of verifying, among other, how the practices happened in EI, which the developed activities, which the used softwares and the adopted pedagogic approach. Besides the observations in loco, they were analysis objects the perceptions as the teacher of LEI as the teacher of the 3rd grades and of more six students of the same class. The collected data revealed practices of use of the computer with focus on education. However, difficulties were also observed related to the administration of the technology in school, and lack of the teacher's participation direct and effective in the classes in the LEI, but in a general way, it was possible to verify that, although the Educational Informatics is being quite spread and implemented at schools of great centers, as the center-west areas and in the southeast of the country, in the city of Floriano – Piauí the EI is still a reality in search of consolidation, with its huge potential still unknown and unavailable for most of the schools, teachers and students of the city