Tecnologias digitais em tempos de pandemia: desafios do trabalho remoto para professores de mais idade do Brasil e de Portugal

Abstract

This study aims at analyzing the pedagogical use of digital technologies by elderly professors in higher education, in times of COVID-19 pandemic.It is known that many professionals in educaexperiencing changes in relation to their teaching strategies, which now require the use of multiple digital interfaces. The shift from face-to-face to online learning and teaching demands new mediations and forms of interactions, media literacy and participation in the participatory culture, to name a few. In this sense, many professors face feelings of uncertainty and doubts, as they have been trained to work in the face-to-face environment and this can make their performance difficult in online teaching and learningdue to all the challenges that are presented in this culture marked by complexity. The authors that supported our study are Lemos (2009), Kenski (2012), Terceiro (2019), Kachar (2003), Nóvoa (2020)  and  Pimentel  and  Carvalho  (2020). The  methodology  used  was  a  qualitative  research  of  a descriptive  nature.  We  used  two  online  questionnaires  as  instruments  of  data  collection.  For  data analysis, we used the content analysis technique by Bardin (2011). Some results indicate that elderly professors from Brazil and Portugal have sought to blend the teaching they were used to in the face-to-face environment with new teaching strategies that use digital interfaces. In addition, professors are experiencing moments of discovery, learning, experimentation, and reinvention.