O USO DE APLICATIVOS MÓVEIS EM PROPOSTAS DIDÁTICAS PARA O ENSINO DE QUÍMICA

Abstract

Digital Technologies (DTs) in school environments transform the traditional practices of Basic Education, which are defined in a particular aspect and a broad phenomenon and directly related to the current society. We live in the heyday of Digital Information and Communication Technologies (TDICs), and in a society designated as "Network Society", characterized by a social structure and essentially based on the interconnection of a network system, the internet. Therefore, for young people of this generation, who make incessant use of DTs, the blackboard is no longer such an attractive and sufficient resource for teachers. DICTs, such as smartphones and tablets, should not be left aside as part of everyday school life, as they provide means of access to knowledge and serve as a stimulus for learning, which leads us to realize that these devices, together with the internet, are part of students' lives, and can be a way to encourage studies through research; visualization of didactic videos; debates and conversations on various subjects that can help in the student's school life. In this context, the question arises regarding the use of Mobile Devices (MDs) in the classroom as a methodological alternative for meaningful and effective teaching of Chemistry. Based on this perspective, the main objective of this work was to propose the use of DMs as an alternative methodology for Teaching Chemistry, in addition to elaborating and making available two didactic proposals in the light of active methodologies mediated by the use of educational mobile applications available free of charge in stores online. The careful investigation of the APPs related to the keyword “Chemistry” was carried out on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store platforms, which are linked to the Android and iOS operating systems, respectively, with the aim of selecting and presenting the APPs offered by the stores and that can be adapted and applied to Chemistry classes. As a methodological procedure, in order to establish, categorize and provide a broad and objective view of the subject under study, readings were carried out in textbooks, regulatory documents, theses and articles in the area of ​​Chemistry Teaching for the structuring of this work and the didactic proposals. The suggested didactic proposals address the Periodic Table (Organization and Properties of Chemical Elements) and Organic Chemistry (Organic Functions) as themes, and are developed using active methodologies and mobile APPs, such as the Pedagogical Workshop with the APP “Periodic Table” and the Three Moments Delizoicok Pedagogics together with the Multiple Intelligences of Gardner Howard with the APP “RevisApp”. The search for accessible, modern and low-cost methods and strategies for motivating Chemistry Teaching is always a great challenge for teachers, and in order to break with this paradigm, the didactic proposals elaborated aim to boost students to acquire meaningful learning through the use of mobile APPs that, if used in an organized and intentionally directed way towards the pedagogical objectives for a given topic, arouse the student's curiosity and the possibility of making him an active and motivated learner to the study of the discipline.