O uso dos simuladores computacionais para o ensino de ciências, utilizando a rede social Facebook como plataforma repositória e interativa

• Ano de defesa: 2018
• Autor(a) principal: Santos Filho, Antonio Normandia dos
• Outros Autores: [e-mail]
• Orientador(a): Porto, Maria Beatriz Dias da Silva Maia
• Banca de defesa: Almeida, Lidiane Aparecida de , Godinho, Cresus Fonseca de Lima
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação de Ensino em Educação Básica - CAp UERJ
• Departamento: Centro de Educação e Humanidades::Instituto de Aplicação Fernando Rodrigues da Silveira
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ensino de ciências; Simuladores computacionais; Facebook
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Science teaching; Computational simulators
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO::TOPICOS ESPECIFICOS DE EDUCACAO
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/19364

The great technological advance present in contemporary society means that technologies are present in all branches of society, including in the area of Education, in its various segments. However, the insertion of digital technologies and tools, especially at the level of basic education, is still very timid. In the specific case of the Science discipline, for example, there is a series of free computer simulators that can be used as learning objects. Such simulators are recognized for their ability to reproduce phenomena of the natural sciences present in daily life, such as, for example, the simulation of phenomena associated with light, sound, heat and photosynthesis. This digital resource can be an important complement to the activities carried out in the science labs and, in the absence of these labs, can become a complementary instrument of theoretical classes. In addition to the issue of the use of simulators, this work also addresses the interactive question and discusses the contribution of social networks, specifically Facebook, the social network with the largest number of users in the world, as a support tool, or as an extension of the room from classroom to educational practices, where students and teachers can talk about the themes worked in the classroom. The simulators used in this work can even be hosted on Facebook and work perfectly there. The work, therefore, aims to propose, through an interventionist methodology and an essentially qualitative research, the use of learning objects, in particular the computer simulators, in the teaching and learning of Sciences, for students of the ninth grade, of a private school and a public school, both located in the northern zone, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, as a methodological practice for observation and analysis in the classroom, and also outside it, in the search for an improvement of the teaching processes and learning of the Sciences of Nature. And, within this process, seek to promote greater interaction between the actors involved, via social network. For the data collection of the several stages of the research, questionnaires applied to all the participants are used.