Desenvolvimento de mídias digitais na educação do campo: o Projeto DEMULTS em escolas municipais de Vicência - PE

Abstract

Digital Information and Communication Technologies (DICTs) that expand their domain and become progressively more present in the daily lives of societies in the contemporary world. However, in the rural regions of Brazil, the numbers related to access to digital technological goods are still lower than the urban regions of the country. Evidenced as potentialities of these technologies in producing and sharing content, the need for their insertion in rural schools is pointed out, taking into consideration, essentially, the principles of Rural Education, after decades of effort by social movements in favor of its construction. Understanding this problem, in 2019, the research group DEMULTS (Educational Development of Sustainable Multimedia) developed a project aimed at the context of Rural Education. This group, which has been active since 2011, aims to promote learning through media development Digital using a participative/cooperative methodology that puts the student as an agent of knowledge construction. The researcher joined the project team, participating in all its development, in the municipality of Vicência-PE, which is why the study is organized as participant research. The objective of the present study was to analyze how changes in the DEMULTS methodology resulted from its application in the context of Rural Education. As the main results of the analysis of these modifications, it was possible to identify an alignment with the principles of Rural Education, in addition to the inclusion of agricultural technicians, making a participatory/collaborative learning network in the process of building digital artifacts, aimed at valuing knowledge and of rural culture. An in-depth analysis of the above changes plus relevant reflections on the use of DICTs in the context of Rural Education.