Projeto um computador por aluno: leitura semiótica de narrativas sobre o impacto inicial de experiências do uso de laptops em contextos de ensino-aprendizagem numa escola tocantinense

Abstract

In this study, the theme articulates the input of computers into teaching practice, by means of public educational policies aimed towards digital inclusion of students and teachers. This is a situation research that chooses as their research field a school in the north of the State of Tocantins, which experienced the pilot Project one computer for each student - UCA. For this project, laptops were inserted for educational purposes in teaching practices, known as subsidies for innovation and improving the teaching and learning quality. Currently, this project has become effective as an educational program, Program One Laptop for each Child - PROUCA. In this context, the assignment that we present analyzes, in terms of discursive semiotics of the French line, the sayings about the school transformation and teaching praxis by the current program performers: teachers and students participating from the beginning of the pilot experience up to the understood moment of the consolidation phase. We consider as corpus ten statements created by semi-structured interviews, which bring the narratives relating to the initial impact caused by means of the use of computers in school practices. The research is a qualitative approach and of interpretative character, aiming to identify the perceptions of different ones from the school facing this so-called innovation of teaching. Thus, we performed the analysis of statements, drawing upon the categories of discursive semiotics relating to the narrative syntax level. From the point of view of the standard approach, we consider the relations of handling performed as from the given scenario point that assumes an orientation to the innovation, as for the update and want to make the desired changes. From the point of view of the revisions introduced by semiotic partners, we considered the relating issues both to what is called adjustment, as to what comprises an accident. If nothing is by chance, immediately, everything seems to change suddenly, requiring from the teacher knowledge and another action. We also observed, from the conception of semantics discussions, themes and figures that constitute the discourse of the program actors and so build a school image starting from a presumed transformation by a given attitude of teachers and students in relation to the computer presence in the school context. In view of the contributions and implications of digital inclusion in the classrooms, the interviews show significant changes in the school routine, but at the same time, they point to other problems and new demands: issues related to classroom management, planning, teaching methodology, the need for continuing education that meets more consistently to the specific education in the emerging digital culture.