Feder says he will print a book for students to scribble on – 8/7/2023 – Education

After announcing and defending the use of digital material, the Secretary of Education under the Tarcísio de Freitas administration (Republicans), Renato Feder, backed down on the use of technology in the classroom and says he will print textbooks so that students can ” write, annotate and scribble”.

A Sheet showed that the secretary decided to give up receiving textbooks, sent by the MEC (Ministry of Education), for students in the final years of elementary school (from 6th to 9th). Management chose to use only one didactic material, produced by the Department of Education’s own team, which would only be made available digitally to schools.

After a strong reaction from the network’s teachers, specialists and the opening of a civil inquiry by the Public Ministry, Governor Tarcísio de Freitas announced last Saturday (5) that he will continue to deliver printed books to students —they will only receive material produced by secretariat, and no longer what was provided by the MEC.

This Monday morning (7), Feder said he understood that physical books are important, so he withdrew from the decision to offer them only in digital format.

“This stuff [feito e impresso pela Seduc] it is consumable, that is, the student can write, underline, annotate, scribble in the book itself. The books of the PNLD [Programa Nacional do Livro Didático] are not consumables for this teaching stage. So we opted for the material itself so that the student can have a real book, where he can cross out, take notes and write”, said Feder.

The PNLD books for the final years of elementary school are reusable, that is, they need to be returned by the student at the end of the school year. The measure, in addition to saving public resources, is also considered sustainable, since the student will not need the book when completing the series.

Students are instructed not to make notes in pen on these books so that they arrive in good condition for the next year.

After a week after announcing the decision to leave the PNLD, this was the first time that Feder argued about the need to offer consumable books to students. In an interview with Sheethe defended the use of didactic material to make the class more attractive and went so far as to say that “the student mostly studies at school”, so there would be no need to take books home.