Projeto geo-escola : recursos computacionais de apoio ao ensino de geociencias nos niveis fundamental e medio

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2003

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This dissertation describes a model called Geo-School Project which aims to evaluate possible connections between teaching of Geoscience contents in the fundamental and high-schoollevels with new educational oportunities offered by computers. The Geo-school Project stimulates the use of didactic materiaIs supported by the computer; it is modular and allows teachers to get c10ser to geologic concepts, images and maps of a specific region. The described pilot-module comprises, between Jundiaí and Atibaia, the schools of the Atibaia, Cajamar, Campo Limpo Paulista, Franco da Rocha, Francisco Morato, Jundiaí, Jarinu, Mairiporã and Várzea Paulista municipalities. The inquiry tool was asking professors to choose what are the most interesting subjects to fundamental and high-school levels, from a list constructed from introductory texts, documents, maps and resulting data from a recent project of geologic mapping and academic research. The good receptivity is reflected in the participation of about 30% of the consulted schools. The principal subjects as priorized by the professors were: (1) Water and Hidrological Cyc1e; (2) Nature Cycles; (3) Natural Accidents and (4) Fieldwork (or studies on the environment) in the region of Jundiaí-Atibaia. After these results, a didactic material was produced and distributed in CD-ROM. It is composed by slide-show sequences; an open editor of sequences so that the professor andJor pupil can create its own support materials and a bank of images composed by information on particular geologic aspects presented there. The election of contents, besides indicating a c1ear demand on basic knowledge of Geoscience and a satisfactory degree of availability of computational resources in the schools, disc10sed sensible divergences that reflect two groups of interests: the professors of Geography and Science. Although the computer can be a useful tool for the diffusion of Geoscience contents as long as the project revealed a great expectation of the professor, the complexity of the task is bigger than the one it has been foreseen. The difficulties and challenges involve context, ordering of themes, format of the application and increase of interaction with institutions and professors. A problem to be decided in further steps is the qualification of the professor, not oniy for the treatment of Geoscience subjects but for the use of the computer in education as well.

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tecnologia educacional geociencias ciencias ensino auxiliado por computador

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