LibreKids: educação para o design a partir dos recursos educacionais abertos

Abstract

Considering child development, the current context of education in the country and the role that design can play as a teaching tool, it is proposed to produce open educational resources to support the teaching of design concepts for children, mediated by information and communication technology. For such a project, research was carried out on the development of the child, in an outline of the school phase of Elementary Education 1, based on contemporary educational theories about and the applied use of a pedagogical model called EdaDe (Education through Design), created by Antônio Fontoura. It was noticed that design, when used in school activities, can help in the development of active (do, access), reflexive (think about past, future) and creative (imagine, create) skills of children. Such concepts were used for the creation of digital materials, which aim to support teachers and students for teaching and facilitating access and learning of digital graphics publishing software with the use of free software and principles of open education.