Poríferos em um AVEA: um módulo ilustrado como objeto virtual de aprendizagem para uso de metodologias ativas das TDICs

Abstract

Faced with the pandemic scenario of social isolation, the historical lags and the current demands of education, the resources of a virtual platform are made a propitious and necessary field to be explored and improved to respond to the challenges of our time, in addition to guiding the course what is wanted for the realization of the ideal of democratization of education in Brazil. Currently, several virtual platforms are available for educational use, an area even more heated due to the impositions of physical distance that the moment of public calamity of the COVID-19 pandemic demanded and still requires. A virtual environment requires, in addition to a pedagogical approach that guides its systemic structure towards remote teaching, but also needs a technological base that adequately operationalizes this planned environment. It is known the difficulties that the study of Zoology produces due to the extensive classification of animals, given their complexities and specializations of their cells, tissues and systems, resulting from their interactions with the biotic and abiotic environment in which the animal is found. It is already known that these are contents with a complex language, which often imposes an additional weight on the challenge of acquiring knowledge. This work had as general objective: to create an Illustrated Module of Porifera as a Virtual Learning Object (OVA) to use as an educational tool for remote teaching. And the specific objectives were: insert activities that encourage active participation in the construction and acquisition of knowledge through Active Teaching Methodologies; use Digital Information and Communication Technologies (TDICs) to introduce didactic material and produce cognitive stimuli in platform users; disseminate the porifera found in the state of Alagoas on a digital education platform, through underwater images and videos, of its own production and promote the production of content and knowledge about this phylum. In addition, there is a huge field still to be explored and developed for the creation of Virtual Learning Objects (OVAs) and the use of Active Methodologies allied to Digital Information and Communication Technologies (TDICs). Its potentialities are still in an embryonic stage and developing these tools seems to be a viable and correct path in the face of the enormous challenges of our history in being able to promote the democratization of knowledge and access for all to quality education, as well as the challenges of our time ahead. the difficulties imposed by physical distancing, and the need to continue the educational process, in a language that produces significant knowledge for its users.