TIC e sala de aula: uma investigação sobre o uso das redes sociais no ensino de ciências

Abstract

We live in a society in constant transformations and the internet is responsible for changes that bring new pedagogical challenges to the schools. Teachers need to learn and integrate new technologies in an open and balanced way, prioritizing a classroom with differentiated activities. Including activities that extend learning beyond the classroom using a new space and time through virtual learning environments connected to the internet allows learning from a distance. In this sense, the present article seeks to investigate the benefits of the use of social networks in science classes, since the access to social networks is great on the part of the students. We try to understand how social networks can be used in science classes aiming at learning through the creation of a group of studies created in the social network Facebook. For this purpose, a questionnaire was developed to verify the benefits of learning in the science discipline. Making evident the need to include Communication and Information Technologies in class use to Facebook as a learning tool in order to provide learners with a collaborative learning that is able to reach competences that are part of the science discipline.