Formação inicial de professores no uso das TICS para o ensino de biologia da Universidade Federal do Amazonas

Abstract

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (TICs) is a reality in Brazilian education, however undergraduate degrees courses in education have not yet incorporated its use or even empower future teachers with it. With the purpose of training in the use of TICs in biology teachers training, we included in the curriculum the subject "Curricular Training in Information and Communication Technology I". This subject was taught in blended learning model, combining online and offline approach, promoting autonomous learning, virtually and sometimes in-situ, promoting collective learning, valuing the interaction among, peers and between students and teachers. For the methodological approach we applied the flipped learning using a learning platform - Moodle. These approaches provided individual monitoring of learning, covering students with different abilities, as well as providing the learner-centered teaching. We assessed through qualitative analysis the students learning evaluation activities. They positively highlighted the use of the forum tool and the didactic approach. Therefore, the inclusion of a subject in which students learn and use the TICs is necessary for training contemporary teachers and aware of their role as facilitators of the teaching-learning process. Keywords: TICs. Moodle. Forum. Blended Learning. Teacher training.