O uso do computador como ferramenta instrucional

Abstract

Trying to define a learning situation is, in fact, trying to structure a situation in relation to the leamer, to his necessities and to the learning contento Starting from this premise and the concept of learning adopted it is possible to arrive at a type of instrument to be placed at the learner's discretion, and to indicate the manner in which the process should be developed. This instrument involves the roles that the learner and the teacher will play as well as their interpersonal relationships in the fiel of learning. The computer appears in this context as a very special instrument permitting various leves of symbolic representation something that no other that no other tecnology has been able to offer. The possibilities offered by the use of the computer as as educational instrument grow daily and the limits of its possible expasion are literally unknown. This article is intendend to verify the interaction of children with a microcomputers and LOGO language. There are two research themes: The first, analyses the interaction 's modalities and the childs appropriation forms of LOGO language discussing some cognitive processes underlying this activity. Other aspect, consists in identifying wether this interaction favors the creration of learning conditions for the children to express, explore and test their hypoteses and about writting, reading and geometric notions.