A arte de ensinar e o uso das ferramentas digitais: desafios enfrentados pelos docentes em tempos de pandemia

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate the use of digital tools in science and biology classes during the Covid-19 pandemic, with special attention to the use of Google Classroom as a support tool during classes, by teachers of urban state schools in the city of São Francisco de Assis/RS. We justify the research by the need to get to know a hitherto little studied environment, a context imposed by the pandemic with sanitary impositions, making remote teaching the main way for the teaching and learning process to continue being offered to the students of all stages and modes of education, throughout Brazil and the world. Moreover, it was a challenging time for many institutions, but mainly for their teachers, who work to make learning possible. The research was developed by means of an online questionnaire, sent to the teachers who agreed to participate in the investigation. The questionnaire was structured in five topics, with two multiple-choice questions and one dissertation, thus favoring the response time. It was possible to observe with the collection that teachers still do not feel prepared to face the world of teaching fully mediated by technologies, mainly because they have not received an initial training in Digital Information and Communication Technologies (DICT), being almost unanimous in this statement in the responses obtained. It was concluded that we still need a long way to adapt teaching based on TDIC in the current educational context, in an effective and constructive way in learning.