“Ciênciapp”: vídeos instrucionais sobre produção de conteúdo digital para o ensino de ciências e biologia

Abstract

Digital technologies offer opportunities for Biology teaching. The volume of information available through the internet confers the growing possibility of access to knowledge. Educational institutions and teachers need to play the role of guides so that students recognize the quality of the content found during the exploration of digital media. Current computerization requires constant updating and reflection on the proper integration of digital tools with teaching practice. This work aimed to help Biology teachers who wish to produce digital content. Its main objective was to investigate whether instructional videos can contribute to expanding the use of DICT resources by Science and Biology teachers. For this, instructional videos about different content creation programs were made available through a channel, named Ciênciapp, on a video platform: Youtube. The entire catalog of videos was publicly available in open access, having also been shown in three classes of different disciplines with undergraduate students in Biological Sciences at the Federal University of Ceará. The contributions of the target audience reached by the disclosure of this channel were collected through a questionnaire available in the description of each video post. The responses collected indicated that trained teachers and students in training for teaching practice are willing to use digital tools to create interactive activities for teaching. They also pointed out that the videos carry suggestions and clarify the use of programs properly. On the other hand, the low number of views of the videos and spontaneous participation in the questionnaire may originate from factors such as: form of disclosure taken by the authors, delivery of video suggestions by the YouTube platform, lack of association with another profile on another social network with a wider audience, competition within the platform itself with other content producers in the same area who have a greater presence on the social network. It is concluded that more time and volume of content production is needed, in addition to other forms of dissemination of videos, to gain coverage and audience engagement on the platform. It is proposed that the videos can be shown in formal teacher training spaces as an instrument capable of revealing possibilities to be used in Biology teaching practices.