O uso do aplicativo Plickers para auxílio aos professores do ensino de ciências, nos anos finais do ensino fundamental: um novo método pedagógico

Abstract

ABSTRACT . Given the current educational context in Brazil and the world, in a new dynamic of studies, this article seeks to show a methodological innovation to be used in the class room, through the Plickers application with students in the final years of elementary school, by science teachers, as teaching aid. In this way, the following question was guided: How can the Plickers application help in the activities carried out by elementary school science teachers? This questioning led to the objective of showing new teach ing technologies, with the Plickers application as a tool that can assist teachers' activ ities and facilitate assessment and interaction with students. Specific objectives: de scribe science teaching in the initial grades of elementary school in Brazil; show new technologies developed in the classroom; identify the advantages of using the Plickers application for evaluating the activities of science teachers. Therefore, bibliographic research was used for the methodology, through articles on new teaching technolo gies, published in the main databases, google academic, repositories institutions, books and consultation of the Plickers application website for theoretical basis. And as a result, this article presented this tool, which is still little known, but of great help in student assessment, the teacher has activities using online questionnaires, promotes good interaction between teacher and student, shows the results in a automatic, opti mizing the teacher's work. Keywords: Pedagogical method; lickers app; science teaching.