Computing in education: new technologies applied to the senior high teaching

Abstract

The present paper proposes a modeling for a Support Tool to the Cooperative Teaching (STCT) applied to the senior high school teaching. Such a modeling has been developed based on the result of researches with students, teachers and educators of the senior high at CEFET-MA. The above-mentioned tool takes part of a pilot project aimed at developing a cooperative learning environment at this Teaching Center. Pedagogical strategies have been selected that best fit the new approach used at the institution: the teaching/learning by competence (Leis de Diretrizes e Bases 9394/96 [Brazilian Law for Education] and the National Curricular Parameters) aimed at developing not only the student’s academic abilities but the social as well. As a practice we have chosen Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, etc. because they observe the difficulties of the cooperative strategies use concerning the content related to it.