IBGE in schools
IBGE conducts seminar on innovation in school
November 04, 2019 10h00 AM | Last Updated: November 04, 2019 01h18 PM
IBGEeduca conducted, last Wednesday (30), a seminar entitled "IBGE with Open Doors for School". Having as its main theme “Innovative and transformative teaching practices”, the event gathered a number of education professionals to debate on issues such as technology, sustainability, protagonism and visibility.
The agenda included the use of technological means as a teaching tool, with the objective of attracting youth and children's attention. Luciana Ferreira and Thiago Fortunato, from the Tech Aula project, invested in programming as a way to make classes more dynamic. They reported that robotics was a choice of the students, who were able to create a robot nicknamed “Silva”.
Other similar cases evidenced that social media and electronic games are now part of the school reality. Teacher Marcia Costa, for example, makes use of WhatsApp to communicate with the students. Together, they conceived a game called “River vs Pig”, which has as main objective the depollution of a river. Marcia believes that promoting new ways of learning contributed to a better awareness of students and makes school more sustainable.
Project “PEAMA – taking care of waters”, by teacher Rodrigo Fontes, is also focused on environmental education and awareness not only for students, but for the surrounding community as well. He says the most rewarding part of the project is to see students, former learners, become activists that can make environmental problems visible and work to help solve them.
Moving from the digital to the analogical world, the Geography teacher Juliana de Oliveira turns her classes into games adapted to the subject. The traditional Queimada (Dodgeball) becomes a "geographic dodgeball" and the class is then called “Power Geo” ; instead of homework, students have a "mission" and the exercises are "challenges". These are some examples of the gamification project Juliana has come up with. According to the teacher, commitment, interest and interaction has increased significantly among students after the implementation of the project.
Teaching and critical thinking
José Marcos Couto, a school principal and Claudia Vargas, a Science professor, spoke about the importance of education's going beyond scientific knowledge. According to them, the main thing is to give students enough knowledge to make them opinion makers. “In an ever changing world, we need to prepare students to be autonomous and ready to see knowledge beyond school life. We have to teach them how to learn ”, Ms. Vargas says.
Also adopting the agenda of awareness and critical sense, the project “The Caravans", by José Marcos, brings music and poetry together to reinforce the urgency in giving voice and visibility to students, mainly in the poor communities of Rio de Janeiro. He says that raising debates on prejudice and social exclusion are the main directives to create a more fair and conscious society.
In order to add to the construction of such visibility, other projects were presented. “Dando Ideia” (Giving an idea), a show broadcast by MultiRio, visits public schools and adds to the representativeness of teachers and students. Similarly, the “Blog do Professor”, promoted by IBGEeduca, is another channel for visibility, as it is a place for the sharing of experiences between teachers.
From the audience, Jovânio Caetano, an Education student from Iserj (Superior Institute of Education of Rio de Janeiro) highlighted the he would adapt the experiences shared in the event and use them in his own professional practice: “As a future educator, I will certainly use some of these experiences and new methodologies from such different realities, these I would not know of if I had not been part of this seminar.”
