O ensino de geografia: do tradicional ao advento tecnológico

Abstract

This paper proposes to make a methodological analysis of geography teaching in a state public school in the neighborhood Santos Dumont, Maceió, Alagoas, specifically in classes of primary schools II, seeking a reflection on the lessons performed and the methodologies applied at the time of its realization. To achieve this goal, a brief literature review was conducted about the trajectory of school geography in Brazil, seeking to rescue and reflect on how it occurred the stages of its transformation. hen, the teaching of geography in the twenty-first century was discussed, where it was possible to discuss the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as teaching resources for earning geographic concepts in primary schools. The methodological procedures are based on ibliographic research from the point of view of some authors in the area of Geography, such as Fialho, Machado, Sales (2014); Rodrigues (2016); Oliveira et al, (2020), among others. In addition to the historical retrospective of the teaching of Geography in Brazil, focusing on the traditional view of teaching, address the use of ICT as an innovative methodology in the teaching of geography in primary schools and consider that adolescents belong to the age of technology, where mobile phones and tablets are practically a handheld computer. In addition, one of the proposed objectives for the school in the conduct of Geography classes was the use of these devices mentioned above, as a more dynamic and attractive way, even in the face of the crisis in which education lives, because using the new in the classes, what draws attention and what provokes curiosity is to make a difference in the life and future of students. In this sense, it should be considered that in the current context of democratization of ducation, the traditional methodologies that are not only archaic, but also uninteresting. Therefore, it is considered in this work that the use of ICT as new tools in geography teaching make students pay attention and learn in a more dynamic way.