LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY: teachers’challenges at critical thinking construction in Singapore schools

Abstract

The present article is part of a research carried out with students of teachers’ education and students from high schools of public schools from Singapore and had as main objective to investigate how the learning environments, that integrate technologies are used in this level of education. The research raised questions considered challenging in student practices and for this purpose the CMLES questionnaire developed by Maor and Fraser (2005) was applied to  analyzed the answers in order to understand if the use of technologies helps in the creation of a constructivist learning environment The results showed that the school students point of view when  compared to the teachers, it is inferior to the perspectives created by the teachers. In addition, it has been shown that not always the use of technology leads the student to develop critical thinking. Thus, according to the premises of a constructivist learning environment for this to occur, the teacher will need to reflect on the types of activities applied and how they will aid in the learning process.