A Webquest’s: possibilidades no ensino e aprendizagem de história

Abstract

The transformations caused in society by the use of digital information and communication technologies TDIC, are present in all institutions and social spaces, among these the school environment, reflecting on the ways of thinking, teaching and making Education. In this sense, it is intended through this master's dissertation to show the results of the application of the educational methodology Web Quest, collaborative methodology of Internet oriented research and elaborated with digital technological support. The purpose of this research is to investigate the potentialities and weaknesses of Web Quest in learning history in a second grade class in high school. To do so, it was necessary to reflect whether the use of Web Quest, which is a methodology for technological resources, can contribute to the historical learning of the students who use it. The investigation was through a field survey of an exploratory descriptive nature, with students from class A of the second year of high school of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Tocantins – IFTO, Campus Dianópolis. The research is through the application of questionnaires via the Platform Survey Monkey, development and application of a Web Quest, collection of shared information via mobile application of communication and recording of observations, through a plug of observation, coming from the on-site contact, finally, for an analysis of the answers the closed questions obtained through the application of the questionnaires, the descriptive statistic was used, the data submitted to the IBM-SPSS statistical software V 23.0, software that facilitates the interpretation, analysis, data management and sharing of the results. The data obtained indicate that there are some limitations related to the pedagogical use of digital technologies in the school space, and that the use of the Web Quest methodology applied to the teaching of History, can encourage collaborative learning among students and facilitate the access to diverse sources through internet-oriented search.