Adopt a Bacterium: a professional development opportunity for teacher assistants

Taschner, Natália Pasternak; Almeida, Luís Gomes; Pose, R.; Ferreira, Robinalva

doi:10.1093/femsle/fnaa131

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“…In the last three weeks, the challenges were specific to each group and promoted discussions about the “adopted” microorganism, its relationship with humans and the diseases caused by it. Student responses and discussions on Facebook ® were mediated by undergraduate or graduate students who had already participated in the project and received brief training (20). The mediators were different for each group, and had the role of correcting possible errors, checking the sources cited, directing the study, instigating new discussions and deepening the content covered on Facebook ® .…”

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Comparison of hybrid learning and remote education in the implementation of the “Adopt a Microorganism” methodology

Armellini

Luna

Bueris

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The internet has changed the way teachers and students access information and build knowledge. The COVID-19 pandemic has recently created challenges for both teachers and students, demanding new methodologies for remote learning. In Life Sciences, mixing online content with practical activities represents an even greater challenge. In Microbiology, the implementation of an active teaching methodology, the #Adote project, based on the social network Facebook®, represents a great alternative to associate remote education with classroom activities. In 2020, the version applied in high school, \Adopt a Microorganism", was adapted to meet the demands of emergency remote education due to the suppression of face-to-face activities caused by the pandemic. In the present study, we assessed how the change in methodology impacted the learning of Microbiology and the richness of the discourse of high school integrated to technical education in Business Administration of the Federal Institute of São Paulo, Campus Sorocaba. For that, three questionnaires related to the adopted microorganism species were applied. The responses of students in the 2019 and 2020 classes were compared in terms of content richness and multiplicity of concepts through the application of the Shannon diversity index, an approach usually used to assess biodiversity in different environments. The observed results suggest that remote learning provided students with a conceptual basis and richness of content equivalent to those achieved by students submitted to the hybrid teaching model. In conclusion, this study demonstrated that the #Adote project methodology can be used in both hybrid and remote models, indicating that it is a viable alternative not only for teaching Microbiology, but possibly for other areas of knowledge.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparison of hybrid learning and remote education in the implementation of the “Adopt a Microorganism” methodology

Armellini

Luna

Bueris

et al. 2021

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“…In the last three weeks, the challenges were specific to each group and promoted discussion about the “adopted” microorganism, its relationship with humans, and the diseases caused by it. Student responses and discussions on Facebook ® were mediated by undergraduate or graduate students who had already participated in the project and received a brief training [ 24 ].…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparison of hybrid learning and remote education in the implementation of the “Adopt a Microorganism” methodology

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The Internet has changed the way teachers and students access information and build knowledge. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has created challenges for both teachers and students and a demand for new methodologies of remote learning. In the life sciences, mixing online content with practical activities represents an even greater challenge. In microbiology, the implementation of an active teaching methodology, the #Adopt project, based on the social network Facebook®, represents an excellent option for connecting remote education with classroom activities. In 2020, the version applied in high school, “Adopt a Microorganism”, was adapted to meet the demands of emergency remote education owing to the suppression of face-to-face activities caused by the pandemic. In the present study, we assessed how the change in methodology impacted the discourse richness of students from high school integrated with technical education in the Business Administration program of the Federal Institute of São Paulo, Sorocaba Campus. Three questionnaires related to the groups of microorganisms (Archaea, Bacteria, Virus, Fungi, and Protozoan) were applied. The students’ responses in the 2019 and 2020 classes were compared concerning content richness and multiplicity of concepts through the application of the Shannon diversity index, an approach that is generally used to assess biodiversity in different environments. The observed results suggest that remote learning provided students with a conceptual basis and richness of content equivalent to that achieved by students subjected to the hybrid teaching model. In conclusion, this study suggests that the #Adopt project methodology increases students’ discourse richness in microbiology even without face-to-face traditional classes.

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“…Nessa plataforma, os alunos discutem os conteúdos postados com alunos de pós-graduação, professores, pesquisadores e outros alunos de graduação que já passaram pelo projeto, que assumem o papel de mediadores, no intuito de construir seus conhecimentos acerca da bactéria adotada por cada grupo de estudantes. Os mediadores, em contrapartida, realizam funções como correção de conceitos, direcionamento de questões a serem pontuadas pelos participantes do projeto, dentre outras, o que faz com que desenvolvam habilidades relacionadas com o ensino (Taschner, 2020) e que de outra forma, seriam mais dificilmente obtidas ou não seriam desenvolvidas.…”

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Utilização do ensino híbrido no ensino médio e superior com uso do Adote uma Bactéria como ferramenta para inserção das redes sociais no estudo de Microbiologia.

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The Internet is increasingly present in the daily lives of young people, being an important tool when thinking about education. With the advances in computing and mobile telephony, consultations on the network represent a fundamental stage of learning in any area of human knowledge. In fact, the Internet currently represents an extension of the physical environment of the classroom, allowing access to information almost instantly. In this scenario, Blended Learning emerges as a development involving active methodologies that are based on a mix between traditional and virtual teaching, making the student the main protagonist of their learning process. In this context, the #Adote Project, developed with high school students, inserted in the "Adopt a Microorganism" strand, and also applied to higher education students, with Basic Microbiology discipline, offered to USP Dentistry course students, in the "Adopt a Bacterium". The project has as its base and objective the use of Facebook® as an educational platform, where posts and discussions are carried out, mediated by researchers, undergraduate and graduate students. The purpose of this work was to verify if the Blended Learning developed through the #Adote project proves to be effective for the students' learning. In addition, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the project needed to be applied to the remote emergency model, due to the suppression of face-to-face activities at USP. As a result, the assessment of student performance in this new teaching-learning format has become a new objective of this work. The evaluation methodology used was based on questionnaires, applied at different times, which allowed a careful evaluation of the results achieved. After analyzing the students' responses, it was possible to conclude that, even in an emergency format, the teaching methodology employed led to an increase in the richness of the discourse on microbiology topics. Similar results were achieved with students undergoing training in the hybrid and remote models, which allowed for a gain in learning, an increase in content and a decrease in conceptual errors. As the main conclusion of the presente work, the fact that the methodology used in the #Adote project, in its two aspects, proved to be an important tool for the teaching-learning process in topics related to microbiology.

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Adopt a Bacterium: a professional development opportunity for teacher assistants

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Comparison of hybrid learning and remote education in the implementation of the “Adopt a Microorganism” methodology

Comparison of hybrid learning and remote education in the implementation of the “Adopt a Microorganism” methodology

Comparison of hybrid learning and remote education in the implementation of the “Adopt a Microorganism” methodology

Utilização do ensino híbrido no ensino médio e superior com uso do Adote uma Bactéria como ferramenta para inserção das redes sociais no estudo de Microbiologia.

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