Use of ICTs by High School students in rural schools

Abstract

Education in Brazil has many issues to be solved, especially regarding diversities, such as Rural Education, which has long been emphasized as a way to improve education for rural subjects. When we turn our attention to the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT’s), we realize that many are the necessary advances so that the rural people have the ideal access and that this helps in the process of teaching/learning of the students. In this perspective, the present work focused on the search for information about the knowledge and the use of ICT’s by students of the third high school series of public schools located in settlements in the city of Rio Bonito do Iguaçu - Paraná, through the application of questionnaire on the use of new technologies for the teaching/learning process. The main results point to the need for a direction towards the using of ICT’s by the students, since the school has a fundamental role in the access to information by the students inserted in the rural environment, thus seeking the advancement in the quality of teaching.

Keywords

• Rural Education
• ICT’s
• Teaching/Learning