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Established in 2023, it still faces many challenges in its implementation, such as the expansion of digital inclusion, the reduction of national inequalities, the proper training of teachers and the improvements in infrastructure. This is what they recognized experts and senators who discussed the theme in a joint public hearing of the Education Committees (CE) and Science and Technology (CCT) on Wednesday (27).
The audience, which dealt with PNEs regulation, is associated with a moment of concern for the protection of children and adolescents in digital environments. President of CCT, Senator Flavio Arns (PSB-PR) recalled that the one, which brings rules for access control to the digital environment by platforms and content suppliers.
- [The project points to] the need for digital education for the family, for children, for society, which is a set that has to be addressed in this regard - said Senator Arns, rapporteur of the matter in the Senate Plenary.
President of CE, Senator Teresa Leitao (PT-PE) recalled a project of its own that establishes general rules for media and digital education, with the aim of facing the spread of false content and hate speeches ().
- We are aware of the training of teachers and students, because we think it is also a preventive measure regarding this harassment, this participation in networks not recommended to children and adolescents.
Senator Astronaut Marcos Pontes (PL-SP), one of the refinements of the joint audience, pointed out that internet coverage does not yet reach the entire national territory.
- It is a huge effort that needs to be made with states and municipalities to make this coverage. In addition to infrastructure, we need the content, the preparation of teachers for this new phase in the history of the planet, including artificial intelligence.
Senator Izalci Lucas (PL-DF) stressed that 93% of children between 9 and 17 years old are connected to the internet, according to a 2021 survey of the Regional Center for Studies for the Development of the Information Society (Cetic). However, this use of technology does not translate into critical evaluations on digital content. He questioned how, from Pned, young people can be prepared for the digital world.
Universalization
The Director of Support for Educational Management of the Ministry of Education (MEC), Anita Gea Martinez Stefani, said that the federal government has really worked to ensure the universalization of the connection for pedagogical purposes and supervision of teachers. She cited the National Strategy of Connected Schools (ENEC), which has already reached 60% of schools. By the end of the year, according to her, more than $ 6 billion of investment of the program are foreseen.
It is using technology as a tool that will facilitate and support learning, not as we were seeing: something that was distracting the student, said the principal.
The General Coordinator of Science Education of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), Claudia Ferreira de Maya Viana, recalled that digital education is immersed within the context of Brazilian education as a whole. She recalled that digital technologies can enhance the learning of children and adolescents and argued that the most science in school program - which aims to disseminate digital education and scientific knowledge - is transformed into law.
- We need a great effort to qualify Brazilian education. It is a strategic challenge for Brazil to advance the theme of digital education - he said.
Former federal deputy Israel Batista (DF), advisor to the Chamber of Basic Education of the National Education Council (CNE), stressed that Pned is a fundamental advance and a law that gives the paths to an education that can take Brazil to the 21st century.
- We need to think of a national digital education plan. We need to strengthen federative participation. We have a shared responsibility. We are in a country where 95% of young people have access to the internet, but half do not know how to differentiate a journalistic article from a scientific fact or mere opinion. It is much more serious. Pned is the way to [resolve] this, he said.
Digital transformation
President of the Brazil Digital Institute, Francisco Antonio Soeltl stressed that today Brazil occupies the 50th position in the Global Innovation Index, maintained by the World Intellectual Property Organization (an UN Agency). Soeltl said there are still many regional inequalities and argues that parliamentary amendments are used as a short -term solution to balance the scenario. In the medium and long term, according to him, the provision of these resources should occur in the Budgetary Guidelines Law (LDO) and the Budget Law (LOA).
- The vast majority of Brazilian municipalities do not have resources, so it is essential the performance of the National Congress for the effective training of teachers in the area. We need an APSenate to seek the necessary endowment for states and municipalities.
For the executive director of the Brazil Digital Council, Felipe Franca, Congress did his part by approving Pned, according to France, but now it is necessary to advance implementation. He stressed that the high -speed internet in schools and the percentage of teacher education are not yet sufficient.
- The distance between law and reality is great. Connectivity is the base, but the real impact is to develop digital skills, said the director.
Skills
The president of the Florianopolis Municipal Education Council (SC), Neri dos Santos, recalled that digital transformation is reaching all sectors and that today society is demanding skills that professionals who are leaving the university do not have.
- At the social level, few countries of the world have arrived in digital transformation, with change of culture, values. Children, young people and adults at university need to have adequate training at this time the world is living.
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