Rolê no IF: um aplicativo em favor da inclusão e contra a evasão no Ensino Médio Integrado

Abstract

Institutional documents prove that one of the causes of evasion in the Integrated High School (IHS) of the Federal Institute of Southeast Minas Gerais - Rio Pomba Campus is the lack of knowledge about the identity of the courses of this modality. Based on this fact, the present study sought to validate the hypothesis that a mobile application aiming at potential students would be an ally of the Rio Pomba Campus in preventing the school evasion. This assumption is based on the idea that, by dialoging with the specificities of the age group and promoting knowledge about the courses, the app would favor the engagement and early inclusion of the adolescents for whom the IHS is intended. Thus, the validation method consisted of literature review, study of recent educational experiences with the use of technology, and results of interviews with internal and external adolescent students at the Federal Institute in question. So, the potential of this type of educational product was confirmed, a conclusion that led to the development of an application prototype proposal. In it are found curriculum information, images, videos and identity information of IHS, as well as interaction feature between external public and students who have already joined the institution. It is believed that communication and technology are able to prevent dropout and promote rapprochement between the Rio Pomba Campus and teenagers targeted at Vocational and Technological Education (EFA), by including the latter early in the institutional universe and allowing greater criticality and reflection on which course to choose.