CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES FOR THE CONTEMPORARY SCHOOL: FROM THE BLACKBOARD TO THE DIGITAL WORLD

Abstract

The changes through which society has been going through in recent years also reflect modifications in the educational field. The dissemination of digital technologies has further dilated the lists of challenges for the school with many teachers not knowing how to handle those resources. Thus, in this article we intend to present and analyze the perceptions two teachers from Basic Education have regarding the challenges and possibilities for contemporary education. To do so, a structured interview was made with two teachers who work at different basic schooling levels, as well as the production of a photograph from the school space they are inserted. The gathered data were analyzed under the perspective of Ramos do Ó & Costa (2007), Corazza (2005), Moran (2013), Belloni (2013), among others. From the results, it became evident that one of the characteristics of the contemporary school is to take over functions that originally were the family's, as is the case with ethical and moral values, and, because of that, the school has an increasingly significant role in individual formation. It was also ascertained that the Digital Information and Communication Technologies (DICT) are the main challenges for contemporary schooling in the opinion of the interviewed teachers.