A utilização do hipertexto como ferramenta na construção do conhecimento no processo de ensino-aprendizagem em arte

Abstract

This article has as basic foundation a deeper study about using the hipertext as a support tool in the teaching – learning process. As it is an element of current technology, it can become more attractive to young people because it uses informatics and communication resources to which they are already familiar, because the technology is part of the everyday life for most young people nowadays. The goal is to verifying if the update of this nonlinear resource of information can make the process of building and knowledge more efficient and so enabling a meaningful and contextualized learning. For this it was necessary literature reviews on the subject matter and, thereafter the activities were performed in classroom and in the computer lab to collect data which gave subsidies to the final considerations of this article. Analyzing the same, one can see that young people really interact better when they use the computer as a source of research and reading, and that the hypertext format is more dynamic and contributes significantly to the contextualized understanding, that is what we aim in the teaching – learning process.