USING FOCUS GROUPS IN SUPPORTING DESIGN THINKING-BASED EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS

The contributions of the Design Thinking approach in Education are being increasingly recognized and are inspiring innovative pedagogical projects in schools. Divergent and convergent thinking, which are core values in this approach, seeks to multiply options for exploring educational contents and then driving toward an effective learning.

This article describes the use of focus groups in supporting divergent and convergent thinking in the learning process for basic education. Focus groups take advantage of group dynamics and allow small groups of students to be guided by a qualified moderator (teacher) in order to achieve increasing levels of understanding and deepening of fundamental learnings in the subject under study.

Autores: João José Bignetti Bechara, Stela Conceição Bertholo Piconez

Evento: 11th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation

Local: Sevilha, ESPANHA 

Período: 12 a 14 de novembro de 2018

Anais: ICERI2018 Proceedings

Páginas: 6749-6754

ISBN: 978-84-09-05948-5
ISSN: 2340-1095

DOI: 10.21125/iceri.2018.2600

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FOSTERING COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE WITH CMAPTOOLS IN GEOGRAPHY CLASSROOM

Autores: Campelo, L F e Piconez, Stela C Bertholo (FE-USP)

Concept maps create opportunities for students to show meaningful relationships between concepts taught in Geography. They are concise representations of the conceptual structures that favor the learning of these structures. However, unlike other didactic materials, concept maps are not self-instructive and depend on the teachers teaching position towards collaborative learning and, therefore, are more meaningful for students. Their use also depends on the familiarity that students have with both content to be learned and with digital applications such as CmapTools. It is a strategy appropriate to the paradigm shift from traditional assessment to qualitative and formative learning processes, so that they are potentially meaningful and allow for the integration of reconciliation and differentiation of concept meanings. Its rationale is based on David Ausubel’s cognitive learning theory. It is a technique developed in the mid-seventies by Joseph Novak and his colleagues at Cornell University in the United States. In this article, we present the results of research carried out on the teaching and learning of geographic concepts with 38 students of a high school in Brazil. Initially the students individually created the concept maps on paper before presenting the key concepts to the teacher. Subsequently, they were subdivided into pairs. The CmapTools application, in a collaborative way, created the opportunity to create a new concept map that was analyzed and peer-reviewed. The results showed significantly improved conceptual quality maps than when constructed individually, thus indicating more meaningful and profound conceptual understanding.

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Coletânea de Slides - Tecnologias

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a) Five Observations regarding technology and the legal industry

b) networked Knowledge & The Rise of Digital Humanitarianism

c) 10 innovations in…3D Printing

d) 2014 Future of Cloud Computing - 4th Annual Survey Results

e) Zen and the Art of Happiness Online

f) Semantic Web and User Experience & Design

g) The Usability of Usability

História da Educação de Jovens e Adultos - EJA

 
História da Educação de Jovens e Adultos - EJA Desenvolvido por
Profa. Dra. Stela C. Bertholo Piconez para Formação de Educadores.
Faculdade de Educação - USP 2011