Investigando as potencialidades dos ambientes virtuais de ensino-aprendizagem na formação continuada de professores

Abstract

It s imperious the Teachers Continuous Formation for keeping in pace with the technological advancements, the new knowledge and increased information available in every area in society. Distance Education thru the Internet starts to produce results in all teaching levels. Virtual Environment for Teaching-Learning (AVEA in Portuguese) have a wide range of information, availability and accessible, producing new learning-teaching opportunities. Then, the main objective in this dissertation is to investigate, thru action-research, AVEA potencialities in Teachers Continuing Formation. In order to do the research, we set up a course, Didactical Material Production thru Internet The Knowledge and the Teachable Knowledge , combining presence and distance modalities, with basic education teachers in Santa Maria public schools. The main subject was Didactic Transposition. The teachers searched the WEB for new information in their areas, and produced didactic material. The Santa Maria Federal University Computer Multimedia Environment (AMEN in Portuguese) was used as the main tool. Our proposal involved Dialog-Problematical Education, School Action-Research, Free Software and Problem Solving. The results show Virtual Environment for Teaching-Learning as a powerful formation tool, specially when combining presential and distance modalities, allowing teachers learning while developing their professional activities. Also show an increased computer use by teachers as needed to explore and investigate these resources potential in formation situations and in school work.