The Web Portal Química Nova Interativa: a well Successful Model for Science Diffusion (Symposium)

• Autor(a) principal: Marson, Guilherme Andrade
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Ensino de Bioquímica
• Texto Completo: http://bioquimica.org.br/revista/ojs/index.php/REB/article/view/116
• topic: Química Nova Interativa; Science Diffusion

The  growing  disinterest  of  younglings  for  science  is  translated  into  the  lack  of professionals  in  several  fields:  2000  professionals  are  needed  in  the  base chemical  industry;  5000  positions  of  science  teacher  remain  unfilled  in  the educational  system;  millions  of  PhD  must  be  issued  to  fuel  the  expansion  of  the higher education system. These and other questions motivated several actions for divulging chemistry in 2011, International Year of Chemistry (IYC). Positive results arising  from  the  articulation  of  the  web  portal  Química  Nova  Interativa (http://qnint.sbq.org.br)  will  be  presented.  Surpassing  the  million-access  mark,  the QNint portal delivers revised material, including a unique library of more than 300 interactive 3D molecules. In the YIC, the QNint portal hosted the Brazilian web site of  the  Global  Water  Experiment  (IUPAC  major  global  action  in  the  YIC).  This action entailed countrywide distribution of thousand of pH measurements kits and yielded  more  than  2500  experimental  data  entries  from  schools  in  almost  every Brazilian  state.  This  partnership  is  a  well-succeeded  model  of  interaction  for  the scientific community, the government and society: I – it aggregates members from universities, scientific societies and the educational system; II – it extrapolates the one-way  provisional  role  commonly  given  to  information  technologies;  III  –  it fosters  continent-wide  actions  involving  heterogeneous  participants;  IV  –  it facilitates data acquisition for evaluating such actions.