Redes sociais : um instrumento no processo de ensino-aprendizagem colaborativo em física

Abstract

Refers to Active Learning (AA) methods that require engagement of students during the teaching learning process. This approach has been shown to increase the students' understanding of concepts and laws (definitions) of physics. The use of social networks as a support tool for teaching physics can become an ally of the teacher to promote learning. The basic idea is to use existing virtual communities on the internet. The strategy adopted in this work via digital environments for the elaboration of material created from the collaboration of the participants showed to be effective in developing the Workshop of Active Learning Via Social Networks. In the workshop we present the concepts of digital networks and their relationships with the AL in the teaching of Physics. Participants developed, created through a group on Facebook, a guide for the experiment, Ohm's law, chosen from many applications available on the net. The results were obtained from indicators of collaboration and the responses obtained from the questionnaire. We used UCINET and NetDraw software to generate the data for analysis of network density, degree centrality and betweenness. We observed a resistance to the use of digital networks for teaching in schools. Even in virtual environments the network actors centralize information exchange. In a similar way to the results of the most central of betweenness occur therebetween agents. This methodology proved to be satisfactory in the study and can be used as a parameter for similar studies and researches.