A aprendizagem cooperativa e o uso do blog como ferramenta pedagógica no ensino e na aprendizagem de biologia: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The contemporary debate on the teaching of science in the context of Brazilian reality, has directed towards the pursuit of teaching strategies and methodologies that leverage the improvement of teaching and student learning. The propositions that have emerged from this debate has been on its way to work the contents in the classroom with a reference to daily life, the use of the Internet and means of interaction that it has made possible, especially in a context where these technologies are viscerally present in students' everyday mediating relationships and meanings. In this sense, this research has the objective to analyze the pedagogical potential of Cooperative Learning associated with the use of a blog as an auxiliary tool in teaching and learning photosynthesis in the 1st year of high school. This aim emerge other specific so that they are: historicizing the Biology teaching, particularly from the regulatory changes brought about by the New LDB; analyze the methodological foundations of Cooperative Learning; apply the Cooperative Learning Jigsaw methodology in photosynthesis education; encourage student interaction in a virtual environment - blog, allowing them to learn cooperatively; compare the yield of learning obtained in the class investigated in relation to the control group; know the opinion of students of the research group on the Cooperative Learning and blog use in teaching and learning. The research questions that guided this study were thus expressed: As the methodology of cooperative learning can impact on improving teaching and learning photosynthesis? The use Jigsaw method provides improved photosynthesis teaching? How to relate the use of the blog with the Jigsaw method in improving the teaching of photosynthesis? This research was characterized as descriptive and bibliographical supported in the case study. It is a search that took deductive and inductive, housing both the literature as the field. The research technique was the use of closed questionnaire and the use of the questionnaire in Likert Scale. The field of research was a private school, located in the City Centre of Teresina-PI. The research came to the result that it is feasible to use the blog to support cooperative learning, enabling the sharing of the lessons learned.