Research and Extension Projects

PROCIENCE - IFRJ

Description: The theme of the research project is "App-teaching: for a pedagogy of hypermobility", pointing to a proposal for systematizing educational practices using apps, a recent topic, but one that is already part of everyday school life. Gradually, craft inventiveness with applications are introduced in different training environments, it is necessary to reflect on a pedagogy that considers these factors. As a general objective, it is intended to understand which educational practices and pedagogical methodologies can emerge from the use of mobile devices in the context of online education, developing, with the research-training method in cyberculture, the production of curriculum acts with applications in hypermobility. In this way, it will be possible to provide the creation of a mobile learning-teaching environment, using applications as a pedagogical strategy, for the emergence of teaching and research devices, authoring and content production in the era of connectivity or hypermobility, in order to to rethink a pedagogy favorable to contemporaneity.



PRO-EXTENSION IFRJ

Teacher Training for Online Education

Description: The Teacher Training Course for Online Education, offered by the IFRJ Campus Belford Roxo, has as its target audience teachers and other education professionals in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. The objectives are: to understand the fundamentals of cyberculture and online interaction as educational possibilities; develop strategies for online pedagogical mediation, planning content and learning situations, mainly with the use of applications; enhance the potential of digital technologies and multimedia resources for contemporary education; and exploring educational and communicational possibilities of online education in virtual learning and application environments. The course addresses online education, thinking about technologies and new citizens who have their lives changed by emerging cybercultural processes. There is a proposal for a change in educational practices that privilege training for experiences, in a context of ubiquitous mobility, thinking that digital interfaces can provide a more dynamic, interactive and collaborative education. The project proposes the training of teachers in cyberculture, demystifying the use of digital technologies in educational contexts and experiencing different uses that can be carried out with the potential of web 4.0, in order to provide the best conditions for learning in the context of online education.