O uso de podcasts no ensino aprendizagem de biologia: um estudo com alunos de ensino médio

Abstract

Web 2.0 and its tools permeate all areas of society. It is a network of collaboration, participation, social and flexible, consisting of a series of tools full of educational potentials. 20th century teachers, “digital immigrants”, seek to carry out the teaching-learning process with 21st century students, a generation of “digital natives”, even as if they were in the 19th century. In the teaching of biology, teachers encounter several difficulties in teaching basic content. However, there are many ways to use technology to assist in the teaching and learning process, one of which is to use podcasts: a simple and at the same time powerful technology, with enormous pedagogical capacities, especially regarding its flexibility / mobility, which can be used as a complement to classroom teaching. Thus, the general objective of this research was to investigate the use of this technological tool in the discipline of Biology in high school. To this end, podcasts were produced with students from the 1st and 2nd years of high school at a public school located in the south zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, the results of their use were evaluated and a tutorial was created that will be available to other teachers. The instruments of data collection and evaluation were questionnaires about the experience in digital technology and the contents of the discipline taught through podcasts. The results obtained show the students' adherence to the proposal for the elaboration, production and use of educational podcasts in the biological sciences teaching process. We believe that the production of podcasts by students can be used at different levels of teaching and with different contents. We also believe that the teacher can, in this way, lead pedagogical proposals that lead to meaningful learning through digital teaching resources, such as podcasts. , going beyond the incorporation of new techniques and the development of skills, to allow the active participation of students in the construction of their knowledge. With this, we contribute to the study of information technologies and their role as a complementary resource for learning, inside and outside the classroom, as well as the impact of the use of podcast and mobile devices in the learning of the biology discipline.