Informática e ensino de química: investigando a experiência de um grupo de professores

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Grupo de estudos de professores e a produção de atividades matemáticas sobre funções utilizando computadores

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Formação continuada de professores de química: enfrentando coletivamente o desafio da informática na escola

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A inserção do uso do computador no processo de modelagem matemática contribuindo para o aprendizado de conhecimentos matemáticos

Nesta pesquisa investigamos de que forma a inserção do uso do computador e do portfólio no processo de Modelagem Matemática, contribui para a aprendizagem de conhecimentos matemáticos a partir das percepções de alunos do ensino médio. Na busca de respostas a esta problemática, traçou-se como objetivo principal uma investigação à inserção do uso do computador no processo de Modelagem Matemática, com auxilio do portfólio para o aprendizado deste processo. A abordagem da pesquisa foi qualitativa. Levantamos um referencial teórico focando em especial pesquisadores da área de Modelagem Matemática como: Biembengut e Hein (2007); Bassanezi (2006), Barbosa (2001, 2004, 2007); Borba e Penteado(2001); Ponte e Canavarro (1997) entre outros, e com alguns autores que abordam mais especificamente a inserção de tecnologias na educação como: Valente (1993); Almeida (2000), Belloni (2005) entre outros. No entrelaçamento das idéias relacionaram-se os elementos (computador, Modelagem e portfólio) para subsidiar um tratamento diferenciado do conhecimento matemático em busca de minimizar, por exemplo, os baixos índices no Sistema de Avaliação do Ensino Básico (SAEB) dos alunos do ensino médio do Estado do Pará em Matemática. Sendo assim, foi necessário rever a forma atual de transposição do ensino dessa disciplina. O histórico da Modelagem é descrito em algumas concepções, buscando pontos de aproximação com as novas tecnologias em especial o computador. A pesquisa de campo foi desenvolvida a partir do curso: Modelagem Matemática: Aprendendo Matemática com a utilização do Computador. Na pesquisa de campo os instrumentos utilizados foram: o portfólio e o questionário. O uso do portfólio na pesquisa foi inspirado a partir de uma idéia em Biembengut e Hein (2007) que dizem haver a necessidade de se criar um relatório no final do processo de Modelagem. No entanto verificou-se que o uso do portfólio extrapola sua utilidade como coleta de dados, já que se constitui também como instrumento de organização e constituição do processo de Modelagem da Matemática. Para a análise dos dados definiu-se categorias de análises do tipo emergentes a partir de Fiorentini e Lorenzato (2007). A pesquisa de campo foi desenvolvida no Laboratório de Informática da Escola Estadual de Ensino Médio Mário Barbosa na área correspondente a Região metropolitana de Belém no Estado do Pará, onde por meio da inserção do uso computador neste processo, potencializou-se a aprendizagem dos conhecimentos matemáticos pelos alunos do ensino médio. Nas atividades desenvolvidas, percebeu-se que o ambiente gerado pelo processo de Modelagem dentro do laboratório de informática, permitiu-se trabalhar de forma coletiva e colaborativa, onde os resultados foram significativos, principalmente, articulado ao uso do computador. Nesta pesquisa mostraremos que a Modelagem e o portfólio estabelecem uma relação de troca, possibilitando dessa forma a condução do processo de Modelagem Matemática de forma dinâmica, facilitando o aprendizado do conteúdo matemático.

Metodologia para avaliação do nível de usabilidade de bibliotecas digitais: um estudo na Biblioteca Virtual de Saúde

The aim of this paper was to discuss aspects of applying a methodology to evaluate usability in digital libraries. A methodology that deals with the systematization of a usability assessment tool for digital libraries was used. The aim was to investigate the level of usability of the Virtual Health Library, applying a method that measures effectiveness, efficiency and users' satisfaction when using the digital library. Methodologically, it is characterized as a formal test of usability. This test consisted of a list of ten tasks to be performed while using the website of the Virtual Health Library and the Likert scale was used to assess users' satisfaction. A quantitative approach based on descriptive statistics was adopted to analyze the results. The test was applied between December 5 and December 21, 2011, at the computer lab of the Health Sciences Center of the Universidade Federal da Paraíba. The results of the usability test enabled us to measure the level of usability of the Virtual Health Library, which is considered to provide a high level of usability.

Teorema de Pitágoras: algumas extensões/generalizações e atividades com o Software GeoGebra

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Use of virtual labs for enhance student's procedimental ability.

This article presents some results of a study investigating the use of the simulator VLAB, developed by Carnegie Mellon University, to increase the capacity of graduate students in Chemistry in the preparation of experimental procedures. The activity was conducted in two stages, first the students were asked a manuscript describing in detail the procedure and equipment used in the technique of dissolution and delivering it to the teacher. Later in the computer lab, each student performed the same procedure using the simulator. The activity has been proposed to determine if there could be accuracy gains of the description of the process when performed by the simulator. One of the main positive aspects obtained using the simulator students was the recognition of error, important in that the great majority recognized omitted or confused any process step. This reflection showed the students that in addition to testing a procedure using the simulator facilitates the organization of thought and helps arrange it logically. With the use of simulators, students are encouraged to take risks, to explore, to experience a new way, and a real lab usually offers much less room for risk, exploitation and failure.

As Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação (TIC) e a formação de professores: um estudo qualitativo com professores da educação básica no município de Araraquara, SP

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Effects of cooperative and individual integrated learning system on attitudes and achievement in mathematics

This study compares the effects of cooperative delivery (CD) and individual delivery (ID) of integrated learning system (ILS) instruction in mathematics on achievement, attitudes and behaviors in adult (16-21 yrs.) high school students (grades 9-13). The study was conducted in an urban adult high school in Miami-Dade County Public Schools using a pre-test/post-test design. Achievement was measured using the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) by CTB MC-Graw-Hill and Compass Learning. An attitudinal survey measured attitudes towards mathematics, the computer-related lessons, and attitudes toward group activities. Behavior was assessed using computer lab observations. ^ Two-way analyses of variance (ANOVA) were conducted on achievement (TABE and Compass) by group and time (pre and post). A one-way ANOVA was conducted on the overall attitude by group on the five components (i.e., content mathematics, delivery/computers, cooperative, partners, and self efficacy) and a one-way ANOVA was conducted on the on-task behavior by group. ^ The results of the study revealed that CD and ID students working on mathematics activities delivered by the ILS performed similarly on achievement tests of the TABE. The CD-ILS students had significantly better overall mathematics attitudes than the ID-ILS students and the ID-ILS group was on-task significantly more than the CD-ILS group. This study concludes that regularity and period of time over which the ILS is used may prove to be important variables although there were insufficient data to fully investigate the impact of models of use. Additionally, a minimum amount of time-on-system is necessary before gains can become apparent in innumeracy and increasing exposure to the system may have beneficial effects on learning. ^

FIU Medical Library Stacks and Computers

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FIU Medical Library Computers

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Estratégias de trabalho com blogs no ensino de geometria em turmas de 5° ano do ensino fundamental

This paper presents a survey conducted through collaborative work, which took place in a suburb school in the city of Uberlandia-MG. The research is characterized as case study and has a qualitative approach. Had the objective to look for different strategies of teaching and learning through the use of technology in pedagogical practice. Regarding the methodology in this research, we analyzed the work with the support of blogs, whose pages were used for student records and discussions directed to the geometry content. The students who were attending the fifth (5th) year of elementary school were invited to participate in this project. However, the research subjects were only those students who accepted the invitation to participate in the study through statement signed by parents. The project was developed with 30 students in the second half of 2014 and another 30 in the first half of 2015. The physical space at school, where most of the project activities were done was at the computer lab. In the process of compiling the data, at school, the following instruments were used: field notes produced by the entire project team, photographs and footage of the activities produced in the computer lab and in classroom (recorded by the research team) questionnaires, interviews, virtual space records: the blogs. The results of this research mainly focused on the analysis of the fifth year student‟s productions records in blogs. Regarding the conclusion, the research has shown that blogs, software and differentiated dynamic studies attracted the student‟s attention, leaving them mostly instigated by the unknown. Gradually, students built their own knowledge from their mistakes and successes. The entire work process enabled the computer lab to be an environment that is used not just to solving computerized and tedious drills. The blogs production work in groups, developed in students the reading and writing of both the mother language as symbols and mathematical nomenclature. The interaction between students became noticeable throughout the project, since it provided the student‟s personal growth, respect, tolerance and mutual cooperation. In this sense, we concluded that the project greatly contributed to the students' literacy process in the mother language, mathematics and computer literacy.

Estudo empírico de antecedentes do sucesso de sistemas de informação: análise de um sistema de apoio à decisão em uma universidade pública

Universities are institutions that generate and manipulate large amounts of data as a result of the multiple functions they perform, of the amount of involved professionals and students they attend. Information gathered from these data is used, for example, for operational activities and to support decision-making by managers. To assist managers in accomplishing their tasks, the Information Systems (IS) are presented as tools that offer features aiming to improve the performance of its users, assist with routine tasks and provide support to decision-making. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the influence of the users features and of the task in the success of IS. The study is of a descriptive-exploratory nature, therefore, the constructs used to define the conceptual model of the research are known and previously validated. However, individual features of users and of the task are IS success antecedents. In order to test the influence of these antecedents, it was developed a decision support IS that uses the Multicriteria Decision Aid Constructivist (MCDA-C) methodology with the participation and involvement of users. The sample consisted of managers and former managers of UTFPR Campus Pato Branco who work or have worked in teaching activities, research, extension and management. For data collection an experiment was conducted in the computer lab of the Campus Pato Branco in order to verify the hypotheses of the research. The experiment consisted of performing a distribution task of teaching positions between the academic departments using the IS developed. The task involved decision-making related to management activities. The data that fed the system used were real, from the Campus itself. A questionnaire was answered by the participants of the experiment in order to obtain data to verify the research hypotheses. The results obtained from the data analysis partially confirmed the influence of the individual features in IS success and fully confirmed the influence of task features. The data collected failed to support significant ratio between the individual features and the individual impact. For many of the participants the first contact with the IS was during the experiment, which indicates the lack of experience with the system. Regarding the success of IS, the data revealed that there is no significance in the relationship between Information Quality (IQ) and Individual Impact (II). It is noteworthy that the IS used in the experiment is to support decision-making and the information provided by this system are strictly quantitative, which may have caused some conflict in the analysis of the criteria involved in the decision-making process. This is because the criteria of teaching, research, extension and management are interconnected such that one reflects on another. Thus, the opinion of the managers does not depend exclusively on quantitative data, but also of knowledge and value judgment that each manager has about the problem to be solved.

Estrategias metodológicas para contribuir el aprendizaje del álgebra y geometría en el primero de bachillerato del Colegio Nacional Mixto San Joaquín, durante el año lectivo 2012– 2013

Las estrategias metodológicas utilizadas en este trabajo tratan de mejorar el rendimiento y conocimiento del bloque curricular Álgebra y Geometría en los estudiantes del primero de bachillerato del Colegio Nacional Mixto “San Joaquín”. Las estrategias metodológicas planificadas para el bloque curricular Álgebra y Geometría fueron aplicadas en su totalidad, pero hubieron inconvenientes que se fueron solucionando en el proceso de la enseñanza – aprendizaje del bloque como: la utilización del laboratorio de computación, las diferentes actividades extra curriculares y las políticas de la institución. Las actividades lúdicas elaboradas en este bloque curricular,son las que más disfrutaron los estudiantes, por ser diferentes a las actividades tradicionales que se realiza en la enseñanza de la Matemática, otra actividad que causo novedad, es la aplicación de las TIC, como es el caso de la utilización del software GeoGebra y Modellus que permiten resolver ejercicios y problemas mediante gráficas y animaciones, otra herramienta de aprendizaje didáctico es la aplicación del internet como medio de consulta para reforzar significativamente los conocimientos. Los resultados de las evaluaciones aplicadas a los estudiantes de los primeros de bachillerato de esta institución, demuestran que las estrategias metodológicas utilizadas, lograron mejorar el rendimiento y conocimientos del bloque Álgebra y Geometría.

Trajetória profissional de professoras do ensino médio : sentidos e usos de tecnologias digitais na sala de aula

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Psicologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Processos de Desenvolvimento Humano e Saúde, 2016.