Using digital educational objects to teach human body systems at a countryside school

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Silvio Ferreira dos
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Leão, Marcelo Franco
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Educação do Campo
• Texto Completo: https://sistemas.uft.edu.br/periodicos/index.php/campo/article/view/3762

ABSTRACT. The purpose of this study is to assess the use of educational software and mobile device applications to teach about the human body at a rural school. It is an action research, with a qualitative approach, developed in 2016 and involving 14 students from the 8th year Elementary Education at the Escola Estadual Sol Nascente in Confresa-MT. The chosen software and application was the Human Body Atlas and 3D Human Body Systems, emphasizing on the digestive and circulation systems. The results from the pre-and post-test, which comprised 20 questions together, corroborate the hypothesis that the use of digital educational objects benefits the education process. Students learned better the systems in comparison with when only traditional resources, such as a didactic book, was used. Such advancement could be harnessed to the fact that the resources make use of 3D images and point out each part of the body, besides providing important information and curiosities about the subject. It is therefore expected that digital technologies may be increasingly inserted and explored in pedagogical practices, since those resources allow for studying and solving queries, by broadening educational space and time.