Utilização do aplicativo whatsapp como suporte pedagógico na disciplina de biologia

Abstract

Currently, there is a great need to study ways of inserting digital information and communication technologies (DICTs) in the pedagogical context. In this study, the objective was to explore alternative teaching methodologies that could contemplate technological resources in a way that positively impacted 1st year high school students. In conducting the research, a qualitative and quantitative approach was adopted, through diagnostic questionnaires and analysis of discussion forums in groups created on WhatsApp, with the class’s students submitted to the research. Within the work, aspects of hybrid education were analyzed, mainly in the inverted classroom modality since the technology used was approached based on these fundamentals. We can affirm, with the obtained data, that the technologies have viability to be inserted as pedagogical modalities, due to their mobility, flexibility, and presence in society. Evening students, who previously had difficulty performing activities outside the classroom, found specific times and opportunities with the use of the tool to hold small discussion forums in the message group based on videos with Biology content. The work demonstrated, with regard to the teacher’s participation as a mediator, that such mediation was not a fundamental aspect, because the students, even at times when the teacher did not participate, managed to develop relevant debates in the WhatsApp group on the subject of cell biology. The product was based on the use of technology for the development of experiments on osmosis and the construction of plant and animal cells models with modeling clay outside the classroom environment.