Young high school students and technologies: an experience of collaborative production of digital didactic materials

Abstract

The paper presents results of research and teaching project focused on the production of digital didactic materials, developed with high school students of a Brazilian public school. The project included investigative activities carried out by the students themselves, guided by teachers from two different school disciplines, in order to solve real problems. The motivation was the organization of a collection of documents linked to an industry for the processing of the erva mate, as a didactic material to be used in school by other people to study the industrialization processes in the state of Paraná, at the beginning of the 20th century. The article addresses issues on information and communication technologies and their use in school; problematizes their insertion into school practices only to support traditional ways to teaching and learning based on teachers oral presentation; and proposes the organization of didactic activities with an emphasis on research and with an interdisciplinary character. In this proposition, students not only use digital didactic materials prepared by teachers or other agents, but contribute to produce didactic materials that will be used by other subjects. The analysis of the results was organized into three categories: 1. New forms of relationship with knowledge based on research; 2. technologies and differentiated modes of learning; 3. Training for professional world.