Um ambiente virtual de aprendizagem para o ensino médio sobre tópicos de geometria analítica plana

Abstract

This study presents the construction of a virtual learning environment on topics of plane analytic geometry and its application in classrooms of public high schools in the city of Barra Bonita, São Paulo, Brazil. The environment, implemented in Moodle platform of Distance Education is supported by dynamic geometric viewers idealized by GeoGebra. It approaches points in the Cartesian plane, the distance between two points, midpoint, barycentric, angular coefficient, alignment condition of three points, equation of a line, forms of equation of straight lines, relative positions of two straight lines and perpendicular straight lines. This virtual learning environment contains activities in two units implemented using the tools of Moodle, including WEB page, Lesson, Forum and Questionnaire, always founded in the learning theories of Piaget, Vygotsky and Ausubel. All of this seeks a construction of knowledge through the interactivity with the approached topics, in an autonomous way and respecting the self-paced learner. It also aims the understanding of the concepts in a practical and dynamic way, not limited to the dissemination of the information in a pre-defined static way. In the dynamic of such application, the virtual theoretical activities are followed by practical issues incorporating the content studied, with frequent assessments in the form of discussion forums, quizzes and tests with questions randomly selected from a database of the virtual environment. Despite the difficulties, the first unit can be successfully completed verifying a significant learning of the use of dynamic geometry simulators, with the students showing greater interest and focus on the approached issues.