O uso de simulações computacionais do efeito fotoelétrico no ensino médio

Abstract

Studies showed that the use of information and communication technologies contributes to the educational practice in any level of education. However, it requires changes on the teacher s working methods, generat ing changes on the operation of the institutions and on the educational system. An information and communication technology must involve some kind of material object, which is part of the educational praxis related to the teaching process with some kind of relationship between the teacher-technology and technology-student. In our work we aim to investigate how a computer simulation can help the teaching of acontent of modern physics in high. A computational simulation is an activity that allows the student to manipulate and observe situations that mimic or approximate to a real physical phenomenon. The didactic intervention was performed in four consecutive meetings, each with one hundred minutes long. For this production and performance, we made use of a didactic text, a guide for the activity performance with the computational simulator, an evaluation questionnaire and a learning check activity. The results revealed that the students classified the computational simulation as a good way to approach the subject. Therefore, the use of computational simulations can provide an attractive teaching perspective, however it must be performed in a compatible way to the adopted teaching methodology.