Ensino da agroinformática nos cursos técnicos da área agrária: uma proposta para os cursos do Instituto Federal do Amapá - campus Porto Grande.

Abstract

This research aims to present the results about the importance of Agroinformatics in the curricula of Technical Courses of the agricultural area of the Instituto Federal do Amapá campus Porto Grande. It shows the quantitative and qualitative analysis performed, observing the degree of application of the contents and the menus of the course area; It was evaluated the proposals of curricular components of Basic Informatics in the rede federal de educação tecnologica in its 29 units, of the campis that offer courses in the agrarian sciences; Based on experiences in the offer of the curricular component Introduction to Agroinformatics, at the Unidade Acadêmica Especializada em Ciências Agrarias – Escola Agrícola de Jundiaí / UFRN, which addressed the inclusion of topics and computational tools, algorithm research, numerical simulation and databases, Assuming that the student enters the technical course with a user base in computing, in applications such as text editors and slide show generators. The results in the form of a proposal of an Agroinformatics curricular component for the Instituto Federal do Amapá, campus Porto Grande and suggesting that a greater diffusion of Agroinformatics needs to be performed in the institutions, with an increase in the number of associated curricular components and / or an increase in the Existing disciplines, given their importance today.