TEACHER TRAINING AND TEACHING KNOWLEDGE RELATED TO THE USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN A NORMAL COURSE

Abstract

Technological advances have had a transformed impact on different areas of knowledge, so this article aims to analyze the knowledge of students of the Normal course on the use of digital technologies in education, based on an intervention project carried out within the scope of the specialization course in Digital Technologies Applied to Education, by the University of the West of Santa Catarina (Unoesc),  involving students from a Normal course in the city of Curitibanos-SC, the invitation came from the proposal of an intervention project, where a workshop on methodologies focused on the aspects of educational technologies in teacher training was worked, the workshop took place in two face-to-face meetings with a total duration of eight hours. whose methodological procedure, based on qualitative research, was based on the focus group. The results show that technological demands are still a challenge, they consider that being a teacher is the central figure in the student's education, in addition, the search for training starts to be configured as a means of "improving" knowledge. In addition, students agree that they need to know more about the use of technologies applied to education, as well as their role in training.