Admirável mundo novo: as tecnologias digitais e o pensamento computacional como suporte teórico-prático na formação inicial de professores

Abstract

Technologies are increasingly occupying spaces in modern life, transforming human relationships in education, work, communication, among other aspects. Therefore, it is important to discuss what role these artifacts play in society and how their use should be, especially considering the educational challenges of the Amazon. Thus, this work aims to investigate how Digital Technologies (DT) and Computational Thinking (CT) can be articulated as a theoretical-practical support for Initial Teacher Education in the Amazon context. To this end, the studies are based on theorists who discuss Digital Technologies; Computational Thinking; Teacher Education; and Education in the Amazon. It is a qualitative research, of an exploratory nature, in which two training courses were proposed, TC1 and TC2. The TC1 was developed in a class of the Educational Informatics degree course and the validation process was based on a pre-test to validate the proposal of ten activities, in which efforts were made to articulate content related to DT and CT with content on Teacher Education and Education in the Amazon. For the TC2, the necessary adjustments were made, according to the results of the pre-test, and it was developed with undergraduates linked to the teaching degrees of the Institute of Education Sciences of the Federal University of Western Pará. In addition, the courses enabled the configuration of propositions on how the emancipatory use of DT and the principles of CT can be developed in initial education, considering the Amazon context. As results, the following stand out: the validation of the importance of training teachers capable of using technologies in an emancipatory and inclusive manner; the possibility of applying CT principles by teachers in training in teaching and learning processes; the development of an initial theoretical construct as a theoretical-practical support for Initial Teacher Education, among others.