National Educational Technology Program: perspectives and challenges of using ICTs in public basic education schools

Abstract

This study emphasizes the National Educational Technology Program (ProInfo) – instituted by the Ordinance/MEC nº 522/1997, later reissued by the Decree nº 6.300/2007 – which seeks to promote the pedagogical use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in public schools in the Basic education. The development of the document analysis allowed the analysis of constituent elements, limits and possibilities of this program, highlighting the continuing education of teachers, since in the pandemic, also as a result of social isolation, the use of ICTs expanded exponentially, which reaffirms its importance to assist managers, teachers and students in the teaching-learning process and in school management. The results point to the importance of maintaining ProInfo to expand ICTs in the school space as well as the need to improve its implementation process.