Internet and Child Development: Notes From Psychology at School During Covid-19 in Brazil

Before defining the internet as a risk or benefit to children, this research objective was to investigate the internet access of students in their everyday life, by characterizing the use of it and identifying the child relationship with the internet. The methodology is founded on two dimensions related to a qualitative epistemology: the Historic Dialectical Materialism and the Participatory Action Research. The research was conducted with 22 students from elementary school through Google Classroom, in collective spaces. We argue that post-pandemic school life in Brazil, will increasingly rely on digital technologies, which demands the school, in its social role, performing students and teachers for the use of the network in a way that can bring benefits to their development. Considering the first-person perspective for technology studies in everyday life, it’s necessary to know the student’s interests, to monitoring, mapping, and developing preventive actions for the development of children. In that way, schools need to include technology as instruments for developing educational contents and to reconstruct spaces for developing children technology competence