FROM PENCIL AND PEN TO TABLETS IN SCHOOLS: THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE LIGTH OF PAULO FREIRE’S PEDAGOGY

Abstract

This article aims to presente a correlation between the methodology used by educator Paulo Freire and the contemporary contexto of Brazilian educationm intertwining these two spheres. To this end, the Paulo Freire method was analyzed throughout the work, as well as it’s applications in education, using technology in its broadest spheres as a source. This technology show how na unlimited tool of the creative potencial of the human being, has limits of access by the most needy relatives of society. Access is therefore a frontier for the pedagogical role of  technology. Finally, its obeys that digital inclusion can be a relevant ally for the understanding of inequalities and the spread of a more contemplative teaching, but this is so possible, according to Freire, when the teacher assumes the crucial role of mediator of the process, being he, therefore, responsible for more social and more teaching, and not just a disseminator of pre-established content.