Breve panorama sobre o uso das tecnologias e laboratórios virtuais no ensino de química do ensino médio das séries regulares em Pernambuco

Abstract

The research, which now is present, refers to research on the integration of information and communication technologies in the educational environment through the virtual chemistry laboratory, which are available on the Internet, serving as educational support to the teacher in their classes practices. In this sense, the key objective of our study, of descriptive empirical nature, is to analyze the virtual chemistry laboratory and its usability in a didactic perspective. We dive, thus in the specialized literature and in the observation of laboratories on the Web to understand the issues surrounding the challenges faced by teachers and students in the teaching and learning of chemistry in the high school regulars series on the state of Pernambuco. On the other hand, we face the virtual laboratories as technological resources that simulate conventional laboratory practical classes and that producing a new dynamic of teaching and learning, presentially and virtually, the chemistry. Still, in a review of the literature perspective, we investigate the learning theories that serve as a methodological framework for use of such didatic support resources on the chemistry classes. To achieve the research objectives, we selected four virtual laboratories of chemical and submit they to an analysis guide specially developed based on Teixeira's work (2013) "From distance learning to e-learning platforms: alternative systems of mediated education" dedicated to assessing various aspects related to virtual learning environments. We also consider the free access laboratories (open source) because the information access facility, because, the owner character unfeasible the access. After preparation of the guide questions, sent to experts from the fields of chemistry and educational technology aiming the her validation. In the sequence of the analysis of laboratories, we extended the study with teachers and students of the third series of the regular high school of public and private schools in the state of Pernambuco as the integration of ICT in their daily school, equally, also as effective use of interactive digital media in their practices at school in the chemistry discipline. Having in the face the results of research conducted, we conclude that there are significant gaps and barriers that limit and hinder the use of educational technologies within and outside the classroom in Pernambuco, according to the surveyed sample. At the same time, the study provides contributions to the State of the Art on the chemistry study in virtual learning environments, opening up new possibilities for future studies on the subject and producing a new bibliographic source.