Escolananet: o uso de ambiente virtual de aprendizagem (AVA) como ferramenta de apoio e estímulo à aprendizagem de física no ensino médio

Abstract

This work consists in building, implementing and evaluating a Virtual learning Environment (VLE) as a tool to support the teaching of physics with traditional methodology, in high school, using the Moodle softares package. The environment has been structured to have the student making use of VLE during the whole school year, with the contents distributed in cycles for the three series as follows: Kinematics, Dynamics, Hydrostatics, Thermophysics, Electrostatics and Electrodynamics. The cycles have a basic structure formed by a study guides , a summary text with exercises to assimilation and deepening of contents, virtual labs, simulators and evaluation questionnaires . The use of VLE proved to be an organizer and facillitator of the study and mainly a motivation tool for students that had increased the time of study and interaction with the teacher. The activities were developed in bimodal form, where first the instructor gives a lecture and after the students perform activities at home, which allows the instructor resuming and redirecting the contents according to the performance of the students in the VLE. The increase of motivation for better learning, verified through the completion of the tasks proposed, was confirmed by results obtained in some tests answered by volunteer students.The VLE ia available at www.escolananet.com and and hosted at the site of the Graduate Program in Teaching of Exact Sciences of UFSCar.(http://www.ppgece.ufscar.br/.)