The challenges of the use of digital technology in education in pandemic times

Abstract

With the preventive measures adopted as a result of Covid-19, educational systems faced a restructuring that involved the sudden incorporation of digital technologies for the development of the teaching-learning process carried out exclusively in a virtual way. Thus, the article aimed to report the pedagogical experiences of a teacher, adapted for remote, synchronous and asynchronous teaching, from July 2020 to May 2021, in two higher education institutions, located in the state of Bahia. This is an exploratory, qualitative study, of the Experience Report type, elaborated through participant observation, whose analyzes took the form of a balance of activities carried out through digital technologies, such as Blackboard, Google Meet, Google Classroom, Socrative, Kahoot, Mentimeter and the Padlet. Authors such as Lévy (2005), Virilio (1997), Ortiz (2007), and Trindade and Moreira (2017), helped us to problematize the situation regarding access to information and communication technologies and remote teaching among us. It was possible to identify potentialities and challenges in the use of these technological tools, such as the development of students' autonomy, protagonism and engagement; the need for teacher training for the pedagogical use of Digital Information and Communication Technologies (TDIC), and public policies that make the acquisition of equipment and access to the Internet a right, so that thousands are not excluded from the educational process, collaborating to further deepen educational and social inequalities in contemporary Brazil.