Um estudo sobre o uso da lousa digital interativa como ferramenta didática no ensino e aprendizagem de física

Abstract

This dissertation studies the use of the interactive whiteboard in the teaching of Physics in Secondary Education, especially through a Physics teacher-training course on the State schooling network of northern Paraná. In the beginning of this research, thirty-six active teachers of Physics in Basic Education answered an initial survey that consisted of ten questions. Most of the teachers surveyed expressed interest in being part of a continuing education course – that aimed to promote the use of the interactive whiteboard in Physics classes –, due to their lack of confidence to work with such didactic tool. After an examination of the initial survey, a group of twenty-eight Physics teachers attended a continuing education course about the use of the interactive whiteboard concerning the implementation of an educational product, which consisted of two Didactic Units of Physics designed for teachers who work with students on the first year of Secondary School. After the training course, the teachers answered a final survey that resulted in three categories after analysis, resembling the scrutiny from a study conducted by Glover and Miller (2002) in schools from the United Kingdom. Three teacher profiles were unveiled about the use of the interactive whiteboard: the interested ones, the partially interested ones, and the ones lacking interest. Six months later, one question only was asked to the teachers about the effective use of the interactive whiteboard in classrooms, and the results validate the analyses previously done, reinforcing the ranking in three categories.