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Applying Gestalt approach as a method for teaching computer science practice in the classroom: A case study in primary schools in Brazil

The use of information technology in the academic environment has grown. Building different didactic techniques to help students learn and practice with Information Technology (IT) resources is common. However, applying these techniques does not necessarily mean that students may acquire knowledge....

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Autores principales: Vasconcelos, André, Monsores, Jomar, Almeida, Tania, Quadros, Laura, Ogasawara, Eduardo, Quadros, João
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Publicado: Springer US 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9380982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35992367
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11278-z
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author Vasconcelos, André
Monsores, Jomar
Almeida, Tania
Quadros, Laura
Ogasawara, Eduardo
Quadros, João
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Quadros, Laura
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description The use of information technology in the academic environment has grown. Building different didactic techniques to help students learn and practice with Information Technology (IT) resources is common. However, applying these techniques does not necessarily mean that students may acquire knowledge. The differential idea of this work is to create an approach in which students are protagonists and not just absorbers of IT. Based on this perspective, we applied a Gestalt approach to assist students in practicing these technological resources. They produce new hardware and software tools during classes based on their personal needs and worldviews. We analyzed applications of this novel way of computer science teaching in three different schools. It was possible to observe greater motivation from the students to experience new knowledge from technological resources. The common aspect was that solutions were conceived and developed from students’ needs. The development followed a Gestalt approach, which combines the idea of form and imagination. Thus, with this approach, reactivity towards IT was reduced. It helped construct technological tools to acquire propaedeutic knowledge.
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spelling pubmed-93809822022-08-17 Applying Gestalt approach as a method for teaching computer science practice in the classroom: A case study in primary schools in Brazil Vasconcelos, André Monsores, Jomar Almeida, Tania Quadros, Laura Ogasawara, Eduardo Quadros, João Educ Inf Technol (Dordr) Article The use of information technology in the academic environment has grown. Building different didactic techniques to help students learn and practice with Information Technology (IT) resources is common. However, applying these techniques does not necessarily mean that students may acquire knowledge. The differential idea of this work is to create an approach in which students are protagonists and not just absorbers of IT. Based on this perspective, we applied a Gestalt approach to assist students in practicing these technological resources. They produce new hardware and software tools during classes based on their personal needs and worldviews. We analyzed applications of this novel way of computer science teaching in three different schools. It was possible to observe greater motivation from the students to experience new knowledge from technological resources. The common aspect was that solutions were conceived and developed from students’ needs. The development followed a Gestalt approach, which combines the idea of form and imagination. Thus, with this approach, reactivity towards IT was reduced. It helped construct technological tools to acquire propaedeutic knowledge. Springer US 2022-08-16 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9380982/ /pubmed/35992367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11278-z Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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