Usos e fazeres com as tecnologias da informação e comunicação no curso de Enfermagem da UFMT - Campus Sinop

Abstract

An accelerated scientific and technological modernization process has revealed new forms of teaching construction / learning, knowledge and relationship with the work environment. In the undergraduatie academy it is possible to perceive the penetration power of information and communication technologies (ICT). The internet, which has become a communication tool for thousands of people, can be widely used for education, practice, and research. When it comes to nursing school, it couldn’t be different as this technological resource has shown to be important to the learning process of undergraduate students in academic activities such as reading and textual production and vocational training. This paperwork main objective is to analyze how ICT has been used by students who are under process of professional formation at UFMT Nursing Graduation School - Campus Sinop, relatively to the access to academic texts for reading and textual production. This research is based on qualitative approach with exploratory and descriptive methodology. For data collection questionnaires and interviews were used. The research subjects were students of the 3th and the 9th semester of the Nursing course of Mato Grosso Federal University in Sinop. In order to analyze data it was used the methodology of content analysis through the prism of Bardin (2011) premises, from where emerged the categories that implied conceptions about the use of ICT in academic education: ICT as teaching aids, ICT as expansion of knowledge of training and ICT as uses and resources. The survey showed that the use of technological resources in teaching and learning process is essential to motivate the target, thus improving academic quality and providing subsidies to the decision-making process as future professionals.