O uso de simulações virtuais em oficinas de formação para professores de ciências da educação básica

Abstract

The present research investigated on the use of virtual simulations as a methodological alternative for the teaching of science. These simulations are understood as an event of cyberculture and not only as an evolution of teaching procedures enhanced by the growth of the information and communication digital technologies. Cyberculture is a term used in the definition of social assemblages of communities in the virtual electronic area. In the investigation, we conducted a training workshop with teachers of science, fo the purpose of reflecting over the teacher formation of this professional to use the resources of Digital Technologies of Communication Information, more specifically with virtual simulators, in cyberculture. The research shows a path filled with difficulties, lived by the researcher through the way until the workshop, that happened in the Infocenter of the Faculty of Education of the UFJF and laid out about the virtual simulations in the PhET online platform. The outgrowth of the workshop, as well as the entire preparation and execution process, was written down in reports and audio files that compounded the database for the researcher future further analysis. The theoretical reference dialogued with the subjects of the research and his plurality of narrative, as well as the reflections and observations of the researcher, with the resource of a bibliographical survey and also the grounding of experts who deal with cyberculture whit Pierre Levy, the relation 'digital native and immigrant' present by Marc Prensky and also on the research-formation research methodology, presented in the studies of Edmea Santos. The research-formation fed the method and methodology of this work up and consolidated the production of the formation workshop, place of this research. The results obtained provide the confrontation and reflection on the use of virtual simulations for the teaching and also the formation of teachers to work with resources such as online simulators. The data displayed over the importance of the digital literacy of teachers and pointed out the potential of the use of virtual simulation in science education, moreover a profitable reflection on applied research-formation in cyberculture environments.