O uso de um blog como ferramenta de apoio no processo de ensino e aprendizagem no ensino superior

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate the use of a blog as a support tool in higher education, specifically in the discipline of inventory management. To this end, this work is based on the Theory of Meaningful Learning, David Ausubel, adopting a critical Moreira considering its principles in facilitating teaching and learning: Questions rather than answers, diversity of materials, learning through error, student as perceiver impersonator, semantic awareness, uncertainty of knowledge, unlearning, knowledge and language diversity strategies. For this research, the use of the blog was interspersed with lectures, through a series of activities called webquest. These activities were developed and understood by the students in the classroom, seeking to promote greater integration in the construction of knowledge through meaningful learning. As an object of study, we analyzed two groups: One course and an Administration of Technology in Logistics. Use was assessed that the students made the blog, their perceptions, relations caused by it inside and outside the classroom, in the interest and influence the student's participation in the discipline. As a result, it was found that it is possible to use the blog as an alternative and efficient tool to support the discipline of Inventory Management. This tool allowed to deepen the knowledge and development of meaningful learning and criticizes the students involved as well, aroused greater interest by discipline and teamwork. Among the most important aspects identified in this study, we highlight the fact that the course of Technology in Logistics, recognize the applicability of the tool webquest supported by the blog, as essential to the process of teaching and learning, if well directed by the teacher.