O uso da ferramenta scratch na formação continuada de professores na rede de ensino pública municipal de Teresina

Abstract

In today’s world, technology is increasingly present in our daily lives, and at school it’s no difference, the time has passed when teaching methods could be reduced to notes on black boards and printed materials. It has become common, in the school environment, the use of Information and Communication Technologies, the famous (ICTs). These new technologies that emerge every day come to help the teaching-learning process. Students currently spend a great deal of time connected and tend to be more interested in teaching-learning processes involving new technologies. The digital age is here, teachers must seek to adapt and connect with their students, using new methodologies that integrate their disciplines with current technologies. Considering the experience of this researcher as a trainer of the continuing education program in Scratch for teachers of the Municipal Education Network of Teresina, we sought through this research to analyze the contributions of continuing education in “Appropriating Scratch” for teachers of the Municipal Public Education Network of Teresina. For the development of the present work, the research of the quali-quanti type was taken into account, using a questionnaire that was applied to teachers participating in the mini-training course. Through this questionnaire we sought to identify the skills developed by teachers during training, verifying the implementation of the Scratch tool in the performance of these teachers. At the end of the research, we sought to list the contributions of this training to the pedagogical practice of these teachers. It is expected that this work will help in future studies in the area of Continuing Education and Informatics, especially with the use of Scratch as a tool to aid in the pedagogical performance of teachers, since when using this tool skills such as computational and logical thinking are stimulated, thus improving the teaching-learning process.