Uso das tecnologias digitais pelos estudantes da geração z: estudo em uma biblioteca escolar

Abstract

The Information and Communication New Technologies arrival caused several transformations on worldwide scenery, it is impacting significantly the people lifeway, their relationships, how they produce, learn and apreehend. It is on the new scenery that Castells named of Information Society’s, globalization product, connected by the network of networks, the Internet, that borns the Generation Z, named of Digital Natives by Prensky (2001). This generation thinks, acts, learns and apreehends in a such different way regarding the last generation, known as Generation X or Digital Immigrants. Mold the school library services is a librarian work, to satisfactory attending the new information user demands. Thus, the study aims to identify how executed activies from school library, trough the Information and Communication New Technologies can contributing to generation Z students learning process, in accordance with the school’s Pedagogical Politic Project (PPP). The research subjects are private High School students. The bibliographic research is based on authors from Librarianship, Information Science and Education areas, understanding the interrelation and convergence of areas, seeking to show the study interdisciplinarity. The theoretical reference discusses about related subjects to theme, bringing theoretical approaches that deal with school library, generation Z, digital natives, technology, ICT and their uses in education and in librarianship, especially Campello, Presnky, Kenski, Castells , Kuhlthau, Palfrey and Gasser, among others. The research was elaborated trough the induticve method, qualitative approach with the triangulation adoption of bibliographic research and case study, field research and participatory research. Was used the student routine observation how data collect tecniche, during the use of services and activities carried out on the library and questionaire eletronic aplication, through sampling, carried out with students from Conventional High School (CHS) and New High School (NHS). This study is justified for contributing to civil society, the Information Science and Education community, as well as to the academic and scientific community, and the respective research subjects. The results analyses shows that the researched students appreciates the physical library environment, considering it comfortable with a diversified collection wich provokes interest in reading, in addition to providing activities and services that favor learning and critical sense. The need for expansion and innovation of school library activities, with and without the use of ICT, was evidenced. This sinalizations are too much importance to the activities and services library school continuous improvement, to the generation Z and the next generations. Thus, it is concluded that the school library plays an important role in the teaching and learning process and that the partnership between teachers and librarians is essential for the creation and development of actions aimed at improving the education process, especially with the digital technologies use.