O uso do celular como ferramenta pedagógica no curso de licenciatura em pedagogia da UFRPE / Unidade Acadêmica de Garanhuns

Abstract

The present work discusses off the use smartphone in education, bringing results of a research carried out with students of the Curso de Licenciatura em Pedagogia of Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), Unidade Acadêmica de Garanhuns (UAG). The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in recent years has caused significant changes in the social, business and educational spheres. From readings to the realization of this research, we observed that the way students acquire knowledge is no longer centered on teachers, they have used ICT, such as cellular as a learning tool, searching for documents and taking away doubts. The general objective of the research was to analyze the use of the cell phone made by the undergraduate students in Pedagogy (UFRPE) / (UAG). We have a quantitative and qualitative approach, and the subjects of the research were students of Curso de Pedagogia. The research was of the bibliographical and field type. As an instrument of data collection, we use the questionnaire. Research has shown that the students of the pedagogy course make applications of the cell phone in order to aid pedagogical didactic activities. They use it to communicate, share information, produce and edit academic papers in the classroom, take readings, make use of Sig@ UFRPE, the Virtual Learning Environment (AVA), and use social networks to communicate with other colleagues, and perform various searches on online production tools. Thus, we affirm that it is frequent the number of students who use the cell phone in the University, with the percentage of 97%. of 153 respondents. For the students, the use of the cell phone allows autonomy and is a teaching and learning tool.