Desenvolvimento e avaliação de um método utilizando recursos da informática para o ensino de biologia celular em cursos de graduação

Abstract

Nowadays there was a revolution in he Brazilian High Education leading us to start to introducing new teaching methods in the University courses. We currently have a wide range of pedagogical practices that can be adopted, especially digital ones that are increasingly in the students and teachers universe. However, it is still common, especially in high education, the use of only lectures as a teaching tool, where the student assumes a passive stance in relation to their learning, and the teacher is assumed as a knowledge holder and a simple information transmitter. This type of practice is especially observed in health and biology areas, where the majority of subjects are very technical and the classes are main expositive. Cell Biology teaching is included in this context, as a basic discipline for these courses and involves the study of microscopic structures and processes which it is very difficulty to learn just from static images and texts. To assist in his kind of discipline, we developed in this work an animations and layouts set using Adobe Flash Professional CS5 on the contents commonly addressed in this discipline, and created the BioCell Unifal- MG software. With the material here produced, we developed a teaching method used in the Unifal-MG Biology course, which students had contact with the animations and diagrams showed during lectures and offered tutoring throughout the semester in the computer lab, where they could freely studied using the software. At the end of the semester the developed methodology was evaluated by an attitudinal measure scale instrument. The majority Most f the students approved the method and this was confirmed by the evaluation of points as “Material quality” and “Learning with the developed material ”, been the assertive “the animations make easy to me understand” the best evaluated by the students. The results allow us to conclude that the animation used helps in the cell biology learn and that the students are very interested in known new teaching strategies in the UNIFAL-MG.