TIME IS ALWAYS AGAINST US: TEACHING EXPERIENCES WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN EMERGENCY REMOTE TEACHING

Abstract

This article presents the results of a research on the use of Digital Information and Communication Technologies (DICT) present and used during the COVID-19 pandemic, its impact on education and the development of Emergency Remote Education from the perspective of teaching work. Through reports from teachers who worked during the period of social isolation in a private vocational education institution, located in the municipality of Parnamirim in the state of Rio Grande do Norte (RN), between March and October 2020. The theoretical framework covered was based on the following authors in the axis of DICT and teacher training: Castells (1999), Pierre Lévy (2010), Lemos, Cavalcante and Motta (2018), Cavalcante (2022) and Cavalcante, Lemos and Almeida (2023). The analysis of the interviews was carried out through the Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA) methodology and in this work the Matrix system is used as a metaphor, which is based on a quadrilogy composed of the films: Matrix, Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions and Matrix Resurrections. The results show that the educational experience and experience with some technological resources during the pandemic provided positive and negative aspects: lack of access for students, problems in the separation between personal and professional life, need for training in the use of these tools. The teachers point to these impacts and to the difficulties of adapting to the use of these technologies, since some DICT used during the pandemic were not developed for education, but started to be used in education.