Abstract

SILVA PIOVANI, Verónica Gabriela  and  DE LORENZI PIRES, Giovani. The one laptop per child programs in Brazil and Uruguay: case study. Rev. Actual. Investig. Educ [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.3, pp.311-341. ISSN 1409-4703.

The present article aimed to analyze how is happening the inclusion process of the “one laptop per child programs” in three different schools (one in Brazil and two in Uruguay) and evaluate some of the methodological and pedagogical possibilities of using the laptops in the Physical Education (PE) at school. For that, a case study was performed, a questionnaire was applied to students and a methodological proposal of intervention was executed in the Physical Education discipline. Then, a didactic unity about popular culture games content was created, with the help of the laptop per child, between the Uruguayan and Brazilian schools. For the data analysis were used the descriptive statistical analysis and the content analysis. The results revealed the necessity of facing the technique and infrastructure challenges related to schools and laptops; as well as qualifying the access of children to computers, deepening the teachers training related to practice and school reality. Also, it was found that it is needed to change some curricular practices that do not help in the use of the laptops at the Physical Education pedagogical purposes; and that possibilities offered by the laptops which incentive the participation, curiosity and creation of the students in their learning exist. It is conclude that it is needed to rethink and rework public policies related to the inclusion of the technologies at school, from a perspective that take advantage of them for achieving social and educative aims.

Keywords : digital literacy; digital inclusion; ICT; one laptop per child; Uruguay; Brazil.

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