USO DAS TECNOLOGIAS DIGITAIS NAS PRÁTICAS PROFISSIONAIS DE PROFESSORES DE GEOGRAFIA

Abstract

This study aims to analyze how Geography teachers think about and use Digital Information and Communication Technologies (DICT) in their professional practices. To this end, online questionnaires were applied to twenty teachers from the state school system of Minas Gerais, with questions about the teachers' conception of the term “technology”, the (initial and continuing) training of educators and the pedagogical practices mediated by DICT. Thus, it was possible to understand the positions and relationships of teachers with digital technologies. Most of the research participants were not adequately trained during their undergraduate studies to understand the various pedagogical possibilities of digital technologies and their relationships with the teaching of Geography in basic education. Nevertheless, teachers think about and work with DICT from an instrumental perspective, not resorting to methodologies that promote dialogues between digital technologies and geographic knowledge.