A formação social da mente
01 Jan 1991-
About: The article was published on 1991-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1861 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Information and communication technologies for development & E-learning (theory).
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01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: This research aims to describe how language learning, specifically French, is being promoted through mobile applications, and reports and analyzes some of the most popular applications on mobile devices related to French-language learning, which are available on Google Play Store.
Abstract: This research aims to describe how language learning, specifically French, is being promoted through mobile applications.Applications, that is, software that can be installed in MICT (Mobile Information and Communication Technologies), possess lots of goals and are currently used in various contexts. Furthermore, they can function as access to social networks or as platforms for learning. The M-learning (mobile-learning) is the learning through MICT, such as smartphones and tablets. MICT come to complement the already known ICT (Information and Communication Technologies), for instance, desktop computers, televisions and radio, and m-learning to complement e-learning (electronic-learning), i.e. learning via ICT. It is estimated that currently there are about 7 billion active mobile phones worldwide at the hands of a world population of 7.1 billion people, and smartphone penetration within Brazil already reaches 62% of its population (CONSUMER BAROMETER WITH GOOGLE, 2016) In the process of teaching and learning additional languages, the use of ICT is already a widely discussed field. As for MICT, despite the popularization of mobile devices, research is still relatively recent. However, the creation of applications aimed at language learning is increasing, as is its audience. As to endorse a joint debate on the future of mobile learning among language teachers, linguists, and mobile application developers, this work attempted to report and analyze some of the most popular applications on mobile devices related to French-language learning, which are available on Google Play Store. With this aim, a MotoX smartphone with Android 5.1 system was used as a support and seven applications (Mondly, Duolingo, Memrise, Mosalingua, Babbel, Busuu and Le Bon Mot), advertised as French courses, were described and evaluated regarding didactic and interface aspects. QR codes and print screens of the analysis are presented throughout this work to facilitate future reference and queries. The activities in the first lesson of each selected application were analyzed evidencing and comparing the construct and the methodology announced in Google Play Store with what is actually developed during the use of the application. In a second moment, from the use of the applications, questions related to the interface and usability of the applications were analyzed, such as the presence and operation of image, audio and video resources in each application and the difficulties regarding the use of the platform. From this description and analysis, it is noticed that the applications are, in general, innovative in the questions of interface and usability. However, in the didactic-methodological aspect, they are traditional and structuralist, although they were advertised as communicative in the Google Play Store. On theses apps, it is noticed a teaching method focused only on repetition and learning of vocabulary which, although accompanied by well-constructed platforms and interfaces, does not correspond to the communicative needs of the learners of the 21st century.
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01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: In this paper, a Science exhibit about optics was built and taken to the school, a formal educational environment, where the actions of a group of high school students visiting the exhibition were observed and analyzed.
Abstract: This research has focused on non-formal Science education activities employed during formal education. A Science exhibit about optics was built and taken to the school, a formal educational environment. The actions of a group of High Schools students visiting the exhibition were observed and analyzed. The exhibit, among labels and posters and paintings, has an obscure camera with a small hole in one on its sides, so that the light, coming from one outside object, was projected in a screen inside the camera. The exhibit aimed to show how the great painters used the Geometric Optics principles to create their paintings. The exhibition was based on the work of Queiroz, Barbosa-Lima and Santiago (2006). A qualitative research approach was used to understand whether the exhibition could motivate students to learn Science. To do so we planned three moments of data collection; before, during and after the students' visit to the exhibit placed in the school hall. The students' interactions that occur before and during their visit to the exhibit were observed and video-taped. The third moment of observation happened back in the classroom, with the Science teacher. The results show that such activities can sharpen students' scientific curiosity, thus contributing to improve the process of Science learning. Exhibition, as this, has the characteristic of contextualizing Science content by showing how such knowledge is employed. The exhibit has enhanced students' participation and involvement. Thus, this research work suggests that the use of non-formal education activities such museum exhibits may improve students' interest in Science.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the perception of science teachers about sexual education and the understandings about the sexuality of students with specific needs, in inclusive schools of the Federal District.
Abstract: Science Education must assume its social commitment to Sexual Education and Inclusion, because it is responsible for the elaboration of pedagogical contexts that enable the construction of scientific concepts related to body and sexuality. In order to do so, science education must position human sexuality as a complex phenomenon, whose teaching must consider biological, psychological and social phenomena, and contemplate diversity as inherent in human groups. In this work, we seek to investigate the perception of Science teachers about Sexual Education and the understandings about the sexuality of students with specific needs, in inclusive schools of the Federal District. The relevance of this research is anchored in three aspects: first, the invisibility of the theoretical and methodological discussion that articulates sexuality and disability; according to the repercussion of this invisibility in the non-teaching and; third, in the possibilities of initial and continued training of science teachers in the subject matter. It was a qualitative investigation whose information was generated through semi-structured interviews with eight teachers and analyzed with the support of WQDA software. The teachers' perceptions about the sexuality of people with disabilities, outlined in this research, showed advances on the one hand, that is, on the recognition of many teachers that people with disabilities are subjects of desire; but also stagnation, when there are still teachers who have not been able to recognize their sexuality or how to act in the classroom in order to approach different ways of being and living together, considering sexuality. The analyzes presented reveal the importance of planning proposals for initial and continuing training for Science teachers, with a view to meeting the social commitments of Science Education towards inclusive and sexual education, which implies in defending and promoting the essential right to education person to human development in its entirety, including sexuality and its teaching, in a plural and bio-social perspective.
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04 Feb 2013
TL;DR: This week's mini-curso destina-se aos professores e outros profissionais que desejam trabalhar com robotica educacional, apresentacao de conceitos teoricos sobre o uso da robotica na educacao and demonstracao dos principais recursos do hardware and software livre Arduino para a criacao of projetos educacionais.
Abstract: Este mini-curso destina-se aos professores e outros profissionais que desejam trabalhar com robotica educacional. Os principais topicos abordados sao: apresentacao de conceitos teoricos sobre o uso da robotica na educacao e demonstracao dos principais recursos do hardware e do software livre Arduino para a criacao de projetos educacionais.
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