O computador como meio para o aprendizado, desenvolvimento e inclusão de alunos de escola pública

Abstract

Programs for computer implementation in the teaching environment have been developed in Brazil. One of the programs implemented in 2007 was the One Com-puter Per Student Project with the goal of bringing portable computers to students in public schools. But a question that remains is: what would be the contributions of the UCA Project to the students’ learning and development? To answer this question, the objective of this study is to analyze the contributions of the UCA Project to the students of a college where the program was implemented, the State College Dom Alano Marie Du Noday of Palmas (TO). For this purpose, semi-structured interviews were conducted with school director, coordinators and teachers and analyzed secondary data provided by the college. The study demonstrates that computer use made significant contributions to the students’ learning, but mainly to their formation as individuals, relationships with colleagues, feelings of cooperation, perception about school and student-teacher relationship. This study aims to provide contributions to the direction of public policies and to guide research on the contributions of computer use to the environment of education and training of the individual.