Technologies and scholar education: Can the school be contemporary with its time?

Abstract

The text reflects, in a historical perspective, on the presence of technological artifacts in school and their uses to educate children and young people. From an understanding that schooling is effective through the use, by the school, of different resources, such as technological artifacts, the intention is to shed light on the school’s relationship with its time. For this, the beginning of the 19th century is the starting point of our tour, taking the proposition of the mutual method as the main reference, which extends until the end of the 20th, when computer technology was incorporated into school practices. This reflective effort makes us necessarily understand that schooling, as a technology of power, had in technological artifacts a potential reference for school practices.