FREE SOFTWARE IN EDUCATION: AN EXPERIENCE IN A TEACHERS’ TRAINING COURSES

Abstract

This paper approaches the use of free operational systems and softwares in a teachers’ training course. We problematize the need of developing digital and technological fluency (contemporary skills, fundamental concepts and intelectual capacities) of future teachers considering the pedagogical application of the main educational applicatives. A conceptual and theoretical review was perfomed, followed by an analysis of the “Free software in Education” course proposal, which is oferred in undergraduate teaching degrees at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. The result evidences the course as a differentiated training, that allows the development of digital and technological fluency in free technologies, boosting the use of different softwares for the development of inovative pedagogical practices.

Keywords

• free software
• training of teachers
• digital and technological fluency