FROM THE BLACK FRAME TO THE TABLET: teaching challenges in the digital age

Abstract

This article contextualize the contemporary setting of wide dissemination and use of technology in everyday life of young people and at the same time makes an analogy of the introduction of the blackboard and tablet in school. It presents data found in a survey of public school teachers to reinforce the need for teacher training for digital literacy focusing on online learning. The reflections on the theme initiated in the framework of doctoral research in Education at the University of Minho entitled: Teacher Training, Literacy and inclusion sociodigital Mediatic: Ongoing Case study the distance from the Federal University of Tocantins. This article aims to make some teasing about the (re) settings that mobile devices have caused the traditional ways of teaching and learning and changes in the teaching role. The study found that teacher students teachers online degree admit having low digital literacy, have difficulty in dealing with students with cell phones or tablets in class and say they do not interact with students outside school spaces.