The teaching action during the pandemic: the use of digital tools in teaching practices based on modeling
Mediated Action; Physics Teaching; Model-based Teaching; Digital Tools
In the context of remote teaching, the general objective of our research was to analyze teaching practices based on modeling, mediated by digital tools. Specifically, we intended to analyze didactic sequences planned and conducted by Physics teachers of the Technical Professional Education Medium Level (TPEML), which occurred during the period of emergency remote teaching, focusing on teaching practices in which there was the use or construction of models, understood as partial representations of entities of scientific-school interest, associated with the use of technological resources of information and communication, in order to understand the processes of construction and sharing of meanings mediated by the integration of these resources. To achieve this goal we outlined three work stages: (1st) To bring to light the educational technologies available until the imminence of the COVID-19 pandemic through a literature review; (2nd) To identify teaching episodes in which our research participant modeled entities of scientific interest mediated by digital tools, which was possible through a non-participant observation; (3rd) To describe and analyze these teaching episodes guided by the Theory of Mediated Action. In summary, our analysis showed that the teaching actions of the research participant were shaped by factors of the historical pandemic moment, by guidelines of the educational institution in which the observation of the classes took place, and by the tools made available by the digital culture, revealing different teaching strategies, adoption of new working tools, and the abandonment of others. Moreover, the digital technologies employed in modeling actions of entities to Physics Teaching interest enabled teaching on the one hand, but presented limitations on the other, and in this context, our research participant, turns to the coordinated use with other technologies.