A utilização das tecnologias de informação e comunicação no ensino de química: a realidade virtual como ferramenta pedagógica

Abstract

Current society has been going through several changes in the technological field and it influences the education. Due to latter transformations, teachers must provide pedagogical practices that encourage teaching and learning. In this work, the use of information and communication technologies with emphasis on immersive virtual reality (VR) was investigated as a tool for the teaching of radioactivity in high school in a public system in Paraiba state. Furthermore, VR tool to boost chemistry classes on radioactivity was proposed aiming to encourage the use of technology to enable the implementation of these new teaching and learning techniques. Therefore, the present study is classified as a qualitative and quantitative research, that data was collected by using semi-structured interviews applied via google forms, due to the complications caused by covid-19. In this sense, all results and applications were virtually conduced for students and teachers. Results suggested that the classes and the use of virtual reality as a teaching tool allowed a deconstruction about the negative view of the students in relation the radioactivity.