Práticas de ensino fundamental em Geografia, através de Geotecnologias, no âmbito da educação especial para alunos de baixa visão do Instituto Benjamin Constant (IBC) : município do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The geotechnologies have contributed significantly for the Geography s teaching. To geotechnologies, it is the use of computational tools for the treatment of spatial information, are represented in the Earth's surface by coordinates. The goal of this work is to research and complement the teaching of Geography for people who have low vision. In this respect, it is proposed the use of open-source applications such as Google Earth and interactive portals of Brazilian government agencies like the IBGE, for example, that encourage learning from this particular type of students. In addition, the Geographic Information System was done to perform textured maps and the relief s maps so that they can address the lack of materials that meet the educational needs of this audience in particular. In this way, the testing of these methodological procedures and materials with the necessary corrections was made so that the teaching of Geography can be more efficient and that meets the needs and demands of the students who have low vision. Finally, through questionnaires and evaluations such as exercises and tests, the results were satisfactory in proportion to the students' satisfaction, higher performance and acceptance of the activities performed, as well as showing greater interest in the which was being addressed