Development of educational practices by future computer teachers through offline VLE

• Autor(a) principal: Nunes, Robert Mady
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Marchi, Miriam Ines
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Educitec
• Texto Completo: https://sistemascmc.ifam.edu.br/educitec/index.php/educitec/article/view/948
• topic: Virtual Classroom; Teacher Education; Educational Practices; Ambiente Virtual; Formação de Professores; Projetos Educacionais

The shortage of access and the high cost of infrastructure for the use of digital technologies in educational institutions based in a rural area, in Brazil, hamper the adoption of new methodologies and pedagogical practices by teachers. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the use of a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), without any communication with the Internet, as the primary means of interaction for planning new pedagogical practices by future computer teachers. A pedagogical intervention was carried out in the Distance Learning Technologies subject, with 17 undergraduate students, from the 3rd academic semester of the Computing Degree course offered at the Tocantins Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology – university campus of Dianópolis. For this purpose, a virtual classroom was used on the Moodle platform to be the convergence room where theoretical contributions and digital tools would be available to computing undergraduate students. The methods used for the data collection were observation and analysis of productions. Based on this scenario, it was possible to identify the main advantages and disadvantages of using digital technologies and the challenges that computing undergraduate students had in the course of the pedagogical intervention. Furthermore, the development of future computer teachers was noticed through the construction of their educational practices which aligned subjects from different areas with digital technologies, such as GeoGebra, PhET Simulators, wiki, and Fritzing, in addition to a digital game.