A utilização do ambiente virtual de aprendizagem móvel na formação inicial de professores de matemática

Abstract

This thesis deals with mobile education as an aid in the initial formation of teachers, strengthening informal learning spaces with the use of a virtual mobile learning environment (AVAM), in a degree course in Mathematics. The thesis is defended that mobile education should be part of teacher training, to complement or strengthen informal learning spaces, and interact with access to information anytime, anywhere. Having as objective of analyze how mobile education can help learning, using the virtual learning environment (AVA) Moodle mobile on smartphone. Thus, the first hypothesis is that the use of mobile education enables learning at any time and in any place; in the second hypothesis: the use of mobile learning strengthens informal learning spaces, going beyond the formal space of the classroom. The methodology adopted was the intervention research, which focuses on the relationship between the researcher and the researcher in a training process, as it cuts the daily in its functionality and that was as a research site to UFAL. The approach is qualitative, because it seeks to understand some aspects of the subjects involved, considering the realities built with the research situation. Six students were enrolled in the 7th period of the degree in Mathematics, had their own mobile devices, had digital knowledge for their use and showed interest in participating as volunteers in the research, and their names during the research were replaced by student E1 to E6. The instruments of data collection were six open questionnaires six closed composed of structured and semi-structured questions. The data analysis was performed based on the techniques of content analysis. As a result of this research, the data show that mobile learning had the capacity to help students learn using informal learning spaces, it was realized the importance of learning in practice with mobile technologies, this being a pointed characteristic as a challenge in teacher training. For this reason, in this thesis, he argues for a discussion between the traditional learning space such as the school and the university and the informal spaces, such as the house, a bus or bank queue. Regarding the difficulty of implementing mobile education, the data showed that mobile learning can be used as an aid not as the only learning process.