Abstract
Objective: to evaluate schoolchildren´s knowledge before and after educational intervention using an educational blog about the person with disability. Methods: quantitative study with 74 students participating. Knowledge test was applied. Mean and standard deviation of ages was calculated. McNemar test was used comparing pretest and posttest and Wilcoxon test compared means and medians. Results: after the blog, there was increase of hits in the posttest. Statistical significance was observed in the variables: public and private school (p=0.001); female and male (p=0.001); groups of 13 to 14 years old (p=0.001) and 15 to 18 years old (p=0.001). Issues related to visual and auditory impairmentand history and citizenship were less successful in the pretest than the posttest (p=0.001). Questions about visual and auditory impairment, history and citizenship (p=0.001) improved the proportion of correct answers after the intervention. Conclusion: educational blog application promoted increased knowledge of schoolchildren about the person with a disability.
Highlights
In recent years, the dissemination of informatics in education, through educational technologies, has occupied an important place in teaching and learning processes
This study aimed to evaluate the knowledge of schoolchildren before and after applying educational blog on the topic of people with disabilities. This is a cross-sectional study based on the application of educational technology in the modality of the blog
The results revealed that girls and boys presented the same median of correct answers in the pretest and posttest, and there were no significant differences in the results
Summary
The dissemination of informatics in education, through educational technologies, has occupied an important place in teaching and learning processes. Children and adolescents use the computer as a way of entertainment, learning, and communication(1). People tend to use these spaces to seek information about diseases, exposing their feelings and experiences with the process of illness, and sharing anguish and suffering with others who are experiencing something similar. Web tools, such as blogs, can be used in the development of pedagogical activities, both in the exhibition of information and provided collaborative and interactive spaces between people(2)
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