Mathematics Teaching with TelEduc support: an ethnographic experience on an Administration Course / Ensino de Matemática com o apoio do TelEduc: experiência etnográfica em um curso de Administração

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The investigation presented here is based on the scoop of the Teaching and Learning of Science and Mathematics, from the Post-Graduation program in Education in Science and Mathematics, from the Federal University of Goiás and its main goal is to study a group of second-year students from the Administration Course, evening-course, from a private college, located in Goiânia, state of Goiás, Brazil. This study relates to the Learning of Mathematics applied to administration, to Internet usage and to a free virtual learning ambience which is used as a support to face-to-face teaching - the TelEduc. Besides, the contribution given by the students presently called Monitors of applied Mathematics, Applied Mathematics: virtual resources, offered on the TelEduc ambience were also studied. Throughout the pages on this dissertation, there is a feedback , a kind of descriptive memorial of the academic life of the researcher, exploring his initial contacts with the Mathematics Learning Process and also his contacts with Educational Technology. Lately, the choice of this work methodology is justified, inspired by the principle of the utility for the research reflection, in Edgard Morin. In order to offer theoretical support, the methodology of ethnographic type research was adopted, because as Marli Eliza D. A. de André contemplates, it differs from the simple ethnographic research, although it considers its observation characteristics such as gathering, register and data analysis. To offer guidance to the present research, three questions were asked initially: a) Can students who belong to lower socio-economical and intellectual levels interact satisfactorily on virtual ambiences, contributing to the autonomous and meaningful Mathematics learning? b) How do students from the research group react to the use of a virtual ambience of learning as a support to the face-to-face teaching (TelEduc) on Applied Mathematics? c) Can students with more abilities and involvement on the subject studied, so called Monitors of Applied Mathematics, contribute to the learning process of their peers, using the virtual ambience of learning, through the teacher orientation? The main objective of this research is to understand how students from different social levels and different age limits can interact in a Virtual Ambience of Learning in the Applied Mathematics studies and which implications from this movement can be applied to the classroom. The bibliographic revision developed, the observation, gathering and analysis of data, present to us the importance of the students involvement in the process of the construction of their own learning, in an autonomous and intense format, in face-to-face learning or in a virtual ambience. Also, in order to achieve social transformation through distant teaching and learning as a support to face-to-face teaching; the elements mentioned reveal to us that we should not try to do something new using old conceptions; which means that it is not sufficient to include sophisticated technology such as the Internet and its devices if conservative approaches (centered on the content and the teacher) are still used

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tecnologias na educação, ensino de matemática, educação matemática, ava educational technologies, mathematics teaching, mathematics education, collaborative learning, ava educacao

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