Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: FERNANDA SANTANA RIBEIRO

“INVENTING HISTORY WITH GEOGRAPHY AND TECHNOLOGIES” - CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES OF THE USE OF DIGITAL INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN GEOGRAPHY TEACHING

Geography Teaching; Digital Technologies; Google Earth; TikTok; Teaching Practice; Elementary School

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, we experienced an expansion in the use of Digital Information and Communication Technologies (DICT) in schools. Without them, teaching, even if carried out in a precarious way, would not have been possible. School, teachers and students had to adapt to this new teaching model. The main objective of this research is to analyze the main challenges and possibilities of using Digital Information and Communication Technologies for teaching of Geography at José Eulálio de Andrade Municipal School, located in the city of Paty do Alferes, in the interior of the state of Rio de Janeiro. It is an action research type of research, from which my pedagogical activities will be constantly analyzed and evaluated. For the development of the research, we will analyze two distinct pedagogical activities developed in this period: social media TikTok as a teaching tool and report of the development of the update of the mapping of Avelar neighborhood carried out in Google Earth through the eyes of the students living in the neighborhood – Mapa do Maroto. The spatial focus of this research is José Eulálio de Andrade Municipal School, located in the neighborhood of Avelar, second district of the municipality of Paty do Alferes, Centro-Sul Fluminense area, with students from 6th to 9th grade, morning and afternoon. These investigations are still ongoing; however, informally, based on reports from students in the groups of classes and their guardians, we observed an increase in participation, a better assimilation of content and suggestions of themes. Thus, it appears that it is urgent to study strategies that reach students, among which we suggest the use of TDIC's such as geotechnologies and alternatives such as social media (social networks) based on videos.