O Uso de Tecnologias Educacionais como Ferramenta para Aplicação de Metodologias Ativas no Ensino de Língua Inglesa

Abstract

The 21st century brought technological advances that transform the way we interact with each other, seek information, and entertain ourselves. Naturally, there are also changes in the way we teach and learn, mainly regarding to the teaching of English, which has become more used each day worldwide, and not only by native speakers. In this sense, the generations Z and alpha are acquiring knowledge in a completely different way than the generation of their parents and teachers. Finding innovative and effective practices for delivering classroom content to these generations has been an arduous journey, especially in times of remote education due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, the objective of this research was to report an experience with the use of educational technologies, particularly with the use of the virtual room - Google Classroom -, of interactive games and of gamification through Classcraft, as support for the application of the active methodology Flipped Classroom. As of the methodology chosen, this is an action research, created from a didactic sequence of 16 class hours applied to a class of 8th grade of elementary school in a private school in the capital of the state of Paraíba, João Pessoa. The results pointed to a greater role for students, caused by the inverted classroom. There is also evidence of greater motivation and more interaction between those involved.