Socio-constructivist teaching powered by ICT in the STEM areas for primary school

Santos

Patrício

2021

MTI

Mobile augmented reality applications are gaining prominence in education, but there is a need to design appropriate and enjoyable games to be used in educational contexts such as classrooms. This paper presents an interactive information system designed to support the implementation of an augmented reality application in the context of game-based learning. PlanetarySystemGO includes a location-based mobile augmented reality game designed to promote learning about the celestial bodies and planetary systems of the Universe, and a web application that interacts with the mobile device application. Besides face-to-face classes, this resource can also be used in online classes, which is very useful in social isolation situations as the ones caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, it is the inclusion of the web application, with a back-office, in the information system that makes it possible to include curricula contents according to the grade level of students. Moreover, it is intended that teachers use the information system to include the contents they find appropriate to the grade level they teach. Therefore, it is crucial to provide their professional development to be able to use this resource. In this regard, a pilot study was conducted with teachers who participated in a STEM professional development programme in order to assess if the system is appropriate to be used by them. It is concluded that teachers found this resource relevant to motivate students to learn, and also acknowledged that the web application facilitated the introduction of appropriate curricula contents and also was useful to assess student performance during the game. Teachers need support, however, to implement these types of technologies which are not familiar to them. The necessary support can be provided through collaboration among the researchers and teachers in their schools. Besides engaging students to learn about celestial bodies, it is concluded that the information system can be used by teachers to introduce appropriate curricula contents and to be implemented in class.

Section: Background and Context Of The Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

An Interactive Information System That Supports an Augmented Reality Game in the Context of Game-Based Learning

Santos

Patrício

2021

MTI

“…Num estudo preliminar Costa e Domingos (2017) concluem que é importante desenvolver o conhecimento dos professores sobre os tópicos de ciências e matemática, num ambiente colaborativo, onde se sentem apoiados, de modo a ganharem motivação e confiança para inovarem as suas práticas. Ferreira et al (2017) integram o som com as tecnologias recorrendo a um paradigma socioconstrutivista e concluem que esta abordagem promove o interesse das crianças e dos jovens pelas STEM. Neste estudo, recomendam implementar esta abordagem num contexto de formação profissional de professores promovendo a interdisciplinaridade.…”

Section: Revisão Da Literaturaunclassified

“…Alguns destes equipamentos são protótipos, desenvolvidos pelos formadores (professores na área da engenharia eletrotécnica e de computadores), sendo alguns deles no âmbito de projetos finais de curso, em colaboração com alunos finalistas, quer de licenciatura, quer de mestrado da instituição onde lecionam. Além disso, também são usados recursos computacionais, tais como softwares gratuitos que permitem medir a frequência e/ou intensidade do som, ou gerar/reproduzir áudio, bem como editar/visualizar a forma da onda e do espectro do som (Ferreira et al, 2017).…”

Section: O Tópico Do Somunclassified

Promover o ensino da matemática num contexto de formação profissional com STEM

Domingos²

2019

EduMate

Resumo. Este artigo descreve uma forma de promover o ensino da matemática, através de um contexto formativo que envolve atividades experimentais hands-on de STEM, recorrendo ao questionamento investigativo. Com uma abordagem qualitativa de natureza interpretativa, daremos conta deste contexto formativo, dando destaque à forma como a matemática foi trabalhada, a partir do tópico do som. Serão apresentados, com mais pormenor alguns estudos de caso envolvendo professores que implementaram este tema, de forma interdisciplinar. Conclui-se que é possível trabalhar a matemática, a partir de STEM, ao nível do ensino básico, através de um contexto de desenvolvimento profissional colaborativo, onde os professores são apoiados na implementação das suas práticas.

“…In the scope of these projects, several games were designed to be performed with mobile devices. Examples are "Sonicpaper" (Ferreira, Neves, Costa & Teramo, 2017), "SolarSystemGO" (Patricio & Costa, 2016) and "Heritage hunting". These games have in common the challenge and competition to promote learning of interdisciplinary subjects, highlighting school syllabus topics such as the sound, astronomy and heritage.…”

Section: Technology To Promote Steamhmentioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting STEAMH at primary school: a collaborative interdisciplinary project

Domingos²

2017

PROSOC

There is a growing call on the integration of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) at the primary school level, aiming to motivate students to learn these subject matters, in order to correspond to the scientific and technological challenges of an increasingly demanding society. Recently, many studies sustain the importance of extending STEM to STEAM by adding Arts to the previous areas, to better prepare students for real life. In this article, we present a way to promote STEAMH, by integrating Heritage with STEAM. With a qualitative approach and an action research methodology, we intend to investigate how to develop a pedagogical intervention project that fosters STEAMH learning at primary school and local community. It is concluded that it is possible to implement a STEAMH pedagogical intervention project, being necessary to develop a collaborative partnership with local community and local schools.