Jogo quiz em aplicações de física para smartphone: fenômenos ondulatórios e corpusculares da luz

Abstract

Given the reality that most public school students have a smartphone, they are considered to be digital natives, we propose the use of a digital application to encourage the learning of Physics inside and outside the classroom. One of the biggest questions in contemporary education is how to use digital devices in the classroom. In schools, it is notable that most students are distracted from classes due to the misuse of electronic devices, such as cell phones and tablets. The main objective of this dissertation is to analyze and investigate the possible pedagogical benefits that can arise from the use of smartphones in the classroom in a controlled and mediated way by the teacher. In this case, the smartphone starts to be used as a propulsion mechanism, thus attracting the interest of students, facilitating the learning of Physics contents, such as the subjects covered on wave and corpuscular light phenomena. For convenience reasons, we chose the José Correia da Silva Titara state school to carry out our application, which, even though it is a public school, more than 95% of students have a smartphone. Our approach was based on action research, which drew on the contributions of great thinkers in science, which we can mention, Lev Vygotsky, David Ausubel, Isaac Newton, Thomas Young and etc. Our proposal here, as a product of our dissertation, is the creation of a smartphone application, a game entitled "Quiz game in smartphone physics applications: Wave and corpuscular phenomena of light" which has as main characteristics the healthy competition in which everyone wins, the cooperation between players in a playful way and associated with the use of technologies, thus generating a new perspective on the use of electronic devices during physics classes, so that the teacher can intervene as a mediator of the attractive activity. We also used a questionnaire, which was applied to the students, which enabled us to verify how useful our game was as an auxiliary tool in learning.