Luva de contagem mediada por computador: aprendizagem da matemática para educandos com deficiência intelectual

Abstract

The objective of the present dissertation was to analyze the contributions of the mediation of a prototype of an electronic counting glove to wear mediated by a highfidelity prototype of a freeware educational game for the computer to assist in the learning of counting and correspondence for students with intellectual disabilities in High School. Fundamental. A prototype of an electronic glove was designed and developed, and an existing educational game was researched and used as a highfidelity prototype to mediate with the glove and, at the same time, mediate school content. The work was based on the perspective of cultural-historical theory anchored in Vygotsky's theory of learning. With the initial literature review, the theoretical bases were defined to carry out the research. The researched group was a group of students with intellectual disabilities from elementary school at a basic education school in the special education modality in the state of Paraná, with a class with 6 students aged between 10 and 14 years old. The research is characterized as applied and descriptive with a qualitative approach. Data collection consisted of direct observation of the students and meticulous notes of the events in a field diary and questionnaire. Methodologically, the strategies of active methodologies were used, emerging a new one with the mediation of the teacher added to the mediation of prototypes: electronic glove and computer game used in the school's educational computer laboratory during 14 strategic interventions, with the initial application of the game without the prototype of the counting glove, after the game with the prototype of the glove and final application of the game without the prototype of the glove, as parameters of what the student already knew and how much progressed in learning the contents worked. The mediation of the electronic counting glove prototype mediated by the high fidelity prototype of the educational game brought numerous contributions to assist students with ID in learning counting and correspondence, making counting and correspondence possible with autonomy and understanding and consequently defined several requirements for the educational product of the research and, in the future, for the construction of new computer-mediated instruments to meet the special educational needs of students with disabilities. As a final product, an interactive mediator e-book was developed with a design centered on the student with ID and with instructions to use when the user is playing the game with the counting glove. The new interaction created in the research called human-computer-instrument interaction went beyond the human-computer interaction in which three mediating elements of scientific knowledge come together and potentiate themselves to help the learning of mathematics through the indirect path, when the computer interface does not have the structure to carry out mediation to meet the special educational needs of students with ID.