USES AND MEANING OF ICTS IN THE AMAZON: THE CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTING GREEN IT IN AN INTEGRAL TIME SCHOOL OF SANTARÉM
Education in the Amazon. Integral education. High school. TDICs. Green IT.
This study investigates how TDICs can constitute teaching and learning possibilities that promote the principles of a polytechnic integral education with socioenvironmental responsibility in a full-time high school in Santarém-Pa. To this end, we propose: to map the conditions of logistic, technological and human resources infrastructure for a human formation from the perspective of polytechnic integral education; analyze the use of Digital Information and Communication Technologies (TDICs) as a pedagogical tool for interaction and collaboration in the school environment and its contribution to the teaching and learning processes; identify sustainable initiatives and / or practices that demonstrate integrating ICTs into the full-time high school classroom and the world of work; analyze challenges and benefits of using Green IT in this educational space; potentiate the use of Green IT in the school space and promote social and environmental awareness. The study is a qualitative approach, in which we resorted to literature review, documentary and empirical research, of the collaborative action research type, with the installation of the collaborative reflective formation group in the school studied. The data collection instruments were: interview, questionnaire, researcher field diary and photographic records. Eleven teachers, 02 management representatives, 03 Trainers of the State Educational Technology Center, and 88 high school students from the full-time Santarém-Pa school participated in the survey. The results of the study showed, at first, that the conditions of logistics and technological infrastructure do not meet the needs of a school that proposes to offer integral education; there is discussion about sustainability, but without effective actions in the school context; insipient Green IT knowledge by teachers and almost none by students; the recognition that Green IT is manifesting itself as a trend in the technology field and as an alternative to potentiate sustainable actions in the school space. Given the above, we conclude that: i) the implementation of the Green IT tactical level in the school is a viable alternative for the promotion of a sustainable integral education; ii) the collaborative implementation of TI Green's 4Ps (Posture, Practice, Policy and Production) in the school was a successful experience, showing behavioral changes of young students, contributing to their more integral formation; iii) the production of authored pocket videos, in the scope of the research, indicated an alternative to assign meanings to the TDICs, making the content more attractive to the student, focusing on learning and the learner, besides enriching the educational environments; iv) TDICs can promote the involvement of educators and learners engaged in the processes of teaching and learning, as well as stimulate the continued formation of teachers. This experience of TI Verde can be extended to other educational institutions, to create and / or strengthen the use of TDICs with social and environmental responsibility. This
pedagogical process promotes a socially and environmentally responsible citizen formation, and it can be inferred that the uses of TDICs in the context of integral education find meaning when they employ the Green IT assumptions in a collaborative and critical manner.