Uso de simuladores virtuais no ensino de física

Abstract

Education has always been looking for efficiency in terms of the means of transmitting knowledge to students. Therefore, the use of tools that can assist in this task would be welcome, in the middle of the 21st century, the educator is not allowed to use only the blackboard and chalk as an instrument for transmitting educational content only the blackboard and chalk, since , most of their students have cell phones with a very advanced technology in their hands that give access to a variety of content, in an easy, cheap and fast way, making this type of class monotonous, not instigating their interests in relation to it , for not being able to find such use in their daily lives. Therefore, the difficulty in learning and interest among students is evident when applying methodologies that have not changed over the years of teaching. In this context, the virtual simulator fills these two gaps, the incorporation of digital technology in the classroom and the reproduction of phenomena that are taught by the educator. Virtual simulators are programs capable of reproducing natural phenomena from the simplest to the most complex, helping in understanding and thus helping for a more effective education, in addition to the fact that it is a technology that can be obtained for free, where it is not necessary to pay for your use, making financial cost viable. After observing in the classroom that there was a change in the improvement of the understanding of the explained content when the virtual simulator was introduced after the oral explanation, and to prove the effectiveness or not of its use, an online survey was carried out among teachers Who used it of such resources in their classes as a pedagogical knowledge tool. In this research many were able to prove a significant improvement, bringing a positive response in the learning, as: attention during the explanation, asking when they did not understand, suggesting values to put in the simulator and questioning the behavior of the seen phenomena.