Uso do design thinking (DT) com aplicações da tecnologia digital para construção do ensino híbrido em microbiologia do ensino médio : uma experiência de empatia, colaboração e experimentação

Abstract

The microbiology classes for high school happens in order to transmit the content almost entirely in a conceptual and purely theoretical way by the teacher, without connection with the student's reality, therefore distant from the exercise of responsible citizenship. Thus, the main objective of the present study was to apply the active methodology Design Thinking (DT) in the construction of hybrid teaching in high school about microbiology and health education with an approach that stimulates creativity, collaboration and innovation where the student is responsible by the learning process and the teacher a mediator in solving problems, making teaching more motivating and effective. An action research was carried out in the city of Paulo Afonso-Bahia in a State Public College with students of the second and third years of High School. There was the aplication, questionnaires about, survey of basic knowledge of microorganisms and their implications for individual and collective health, and the application of the active DT methodology following its steps: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test, ending with an analysis of the students' learning level and their perceptions about the DT methodology. It was inferred from the results of the student perception about DT, that it was an effective methodology and that it was well accepted by the students participating in the research, therefore viable as a tool for microbiology and health education. In view of the above, understanding the micro world based on the DT, and above all its tripod (empathy, collaboration and experimentation) was the key to the interaction of this approach and microbiology, given that it was observed that students were unable to do the link between the theoretical and practical fields when the teacher used the traditional methodology of classes. In this way, it is expected that the product generated from this work, the e-book: "Experiencing DT in microbiology: a pedagogical experience of empathy, creativity and experimentation" will provide pedagogical support to teachers with didactic sequences and students' productions fromthe DT, which allows us to conclude that this material will be an instrument for significant changes in high school, prioritizing protagonism and stimulating the investigative teaching of students on concepts of epidemiology of infectious diseases, unique health and health educationand promotion.