Laptops Educacionais em Escolas Públicas: Primeiros Resultados de uma Abordagem Socio-técnica

Abstract

Projects around the world have focused efforts in integrating laptops into schools to be used by children in a 1-1 model. In this paper we present a methodology for this integration based on Organizational Semiotics concepts and artifacts, explored in participatory workshops. We describe a project underway with the active participation of the school community of an urban school in the city of Campinas (state of São Paulo), focused on fomenting contextualized solutions and processes. The results of the initial five semio-participatory workshops conducted in the school demonstrate the viability of the methods used to negotiate the integration of XO laptops in the school. The results indicate that the methodology contributes to anticipate issues specific to the school context, and think solutions shared among those more directly involved with the technology in the school practices; potentially promoting transformations in these practices.