Tecnologias digitais no ensino de química

Abstract

This work analyzes the speech of the Chemistry professors of Universidade Federal do Piauí about the use of digital technologies, educational sites and softwares, conceived as tools applied to the teaching of Chemistry. It also analyzes the usage of softwares in the classroom: Spartan; origin; organic Chemistry II and the sites: nautilus; chemkeys; ucs; qmc.ufsc and quark. The main goal is to verify how the use of such tools contribute pedagogically to the teaching/learning in the area of Chemistry. The theoretical contribution used supports that the digital technologies themselves don’t stablish nor catalyze the changes on the pedagogical practice, but the way which it is conceived by the teacher and the way it is used at the teaching system, intensifies the development of successive innovations and later change in the posterior change in the educational paradigm. As for the development of this research a qualitative methodology was used in order to make the search of chemical knowledge possible bearing in mind that this production also comes from the exchange, the socialization, sometimes conflicting, that the different agents involved promote when they’re facing and representing their realities, completing them with various definitions. In this sense, (a) the speech of the teachers obtained through interviews, (b) the data about educational sites and softwares used on the chemistry teaching obtained through a grid of analysis produced for this purpose have been analyzed. The result of the collected data analysis aims at some positive reasons that justify the use of digital technologies on the Chemistry teaching: quickness and efficiency in the obtainment of information; access to new acquirements and higher agility at learning. Besides, it makes the simulation through virtual experiments possible, gives the opportunity to teachers and students to acquire modern information and possibilities of access to new acquirements.