Estratégia didáctica para o desenvolvimento de práticas laboratoriais de mecânica que permitam potenciar a aprendizagem dos estudantes no curso de licenciatura em física

Abstract

The advance of science and technology is reaching new outlines as we are shaping a globalized world and this, leads to a redefinition of the strategies of teaching and learning so they can contemplate the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) given the imperative character of the position these technologies are assuming in the world. In Physics, these new technologies are used to process data, to run physics phenomena simulations, virtual laboratories, etc. In this job the author presents a form to take advantage of the new technologies to boost the learning of the students in Mechanics laboratory and the subject at all, taking as reference the cultural-historic theory of Vygotsky, given its character of collaboration between pairs – where the more capable assists the less capable – that reflects in the teaching and learning process. In this study had participated a total of 86 students of the first and second years of the course of Physics and Meteorology and three teachers, a technician among them. For data analysis was used a program in FORTRAN 95 and the outcome is that more than 88% of the students that took part in the study and all of the teachers defend the introduction of simulations and virtual laboratories for teaching and learning physics in Eduardo Mondlane University.