Inovando a ação pedagógica mediante o uso de ferramentas cognitivas: potencializando o aprendizado

Abstract

Presents and analyzes tools that enhance human modifiability, with regard to structural and cognitive for learning and hence for the world of reading, assisting teachers through the established mediation between social actions and individual or collective motivations. In a constructivist approach to learning, can be considered as cognitive tools or mind tools all technologies or applications that facilitate meaningful learning and critical thinking, focusing on reflection, knowledge building, collaboration, conversation, and articulation. It is literature review outlined in the context of the influence of information and communication technologies and theories of cognitive flexibility, in order to discuss a new role for teachers and other professionals who deal with information and learning, an effective integration of ICT in educational systems, and proper training of mediators information. Thus, it is necessary to create opportunities and environments conducive to professional education, to carry out analysis of their teaching, questioning the epistemological conceptions that underlie, in order to modify the modus operandi of the teaching-learning process. For this, we need to promote the awareness that quality does not exist a priori, it must be negotiated and built, it will have weights and different meanings in each context.