Competências do professor do século XXI e novas tecnologias no ensino de Geografia: estudo de caso em escolas do município de Remígio - PB.

Abstract

Currently, the school has been the scene of great change in the face of new technologies. The education professionals have to develop your competences to accompany this technological advancement. These teaching tools are increasingly in competition with the teachers and if they will not follow, they will become poorer knowledge. Given this reality, the objective of this research was to analyze the use of new technologies and the competence of teachers in teaching and learning Geography in public schools in the municipality of Remigio-PB. The specific objectives were: a) identify how new technologies are used in teaching geography; b) list the technological equipment available to teachers of geography; c) diagnose the difficulties faced by teachers in the use of new technologies. Therefore, a literature review was conducted a survey on the availability of devices used as teaching material in schools studied, and then was applied an online questionnaire containing and open-ended questions about the competence of Geography teachers on new technologies. As analysis of the data obtained from the survey, it can be concluded that the results point to the need for better professional training of teachers in their competences towards the use of new technologies on the teaching-learning link in Geography.