THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN SCHOOL: AN INNOVATIVE QUEST FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF TRADITIONAL PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES

Abstract

The article is a scientific essay, which promotes the analysis of the distance between the promise of pedagogical innovation and the school reality, where the digital is usually used in the normal routines of a traditional class, generally establishing itself as a mere tool for didactic development, rather than an element of profound transformation of pedagogy and the practices that it entails. And although technology does not automatically transform teaching, it must seek to gradually transform pedagogical practice, and more specifically, transform the design of tasks, the learning process and the effective form of evaluation, where the activity and real uses of technology are taken into account as a research route, as well as the distinction between digitalization and meaningful innovation, which allows the construction of analysis criteria to determine the function that it has within the educational environments, especially in the didactic sequences established by the teacher and the evaluation, which in this case must be directed towards the process and feedback. The methodology used is focused on practical evidence and not on theoretical generalities, showing how technology can reinforce the traditional or enable observable pedagogical innovations. Without real institutional changes, the school punishes innovation, becoming a mechanism of pressure and control, not allowing an approach with sustainable meaning over time of the New Technologies. For this reason, it is proposed as an important element that in order to overcome the tension between innovation and traditional practices in schools, communities of practice and a technological role must be established aimed at formulating real strategies that involve the digital world in the classroom. The article closes by arguing that pedagogical transformation requires coherence between institution, evaluation and teaching practice, not just more use of technology.