Más condutas diante da tecnologia e seus reflexos negativos em uma escola pública da cidade de Teresina: a utilização de smartphones e seus prejuízos para o desenvolvimento escolar

Abstract

This paper is based on the perception that the development technologies of information and communication, while can bring positive aspects to adolescents’ and young people’s educational evolution, also causes, due to its misuse, the regression in the educational process. How can the use of information technology, especially smartphones, be seen as negative in education? What are the users’ postures that make this use negative? The aim of this paper is to present how the use of technology as a learning tool can become a bad thing if it is done wrongly by teachers and students. For that, the quantitative/statistical model was applied through classroom observations and the application of a 13 questions’ questionnaire, with an exploratory research modality. The general objective of this research was to detect the effects of the young people’s posture in front of technology and its reflection in the students’ academic development. Only by analyzing the collected data, it has been no conclusions about how far youth’s compulsory posture in front of high-tech devices is negative to them, but it was possible to verify that most of participants do not use technology in a way that they can develop their educational level. The main authors, whose theories were extremely important in the theoretical basis of this paper, were: ARMSTRONG and CASEMENT (2001), BASALLA (1988), BOCCHINI (2017), KENSKI (2007), O'REGAN (2016), SETZER 2016) and SILVA (2005).