Educação na era do hipertexto: uma experiência diferenciada na biologia

Abstract

This research aims to investigate to what extent the use of hypertext smartphones (smartphone), following a teaching unit that involves concepts of fungi can contribute to learning in teaching Biology. The study was conducted twenty-three students of the 4th year of the integrated technical course, average level in 2014. The survey found that teaching with the help of smartphone increased student interest for the content, it allowed access to the concepts in a more attractive, with more illustrations, promoting greater interaction in the group and improving the understanding of the concepts. In the evaluation of learning with the use of hypertext in the cell, the students showed 77.8% accuracy in the evaluated issues, while in similar evaluation without the use of hypertext reached 60% accuracy. Although the results indicate that the proposed hypertext was positive, it is believed that the concurrent use of different learning objects (graphic, animation, simulation, audio, video, etc.) would help increase the construction of knowledge by students, particularly when the school has no laboratory, for the simulation of the experiment would be a convenient feature.