Pedagogia de projetos e as tecnologias móveis: potencialidades e desafios aos processos de ensino e de aprendizagem no curso superior de marketing

Abstract

This work is linked to the Program of Postgraduate Studies in Education - Master of Education, research field - Forming and Teaching Practice of the Teaching Professional - offered by the Universidade do Oeste Paulista - Unoeste / Presidente Prudente / SP. The general objective of this research is to analyze how the mobile technologies may be articulated to the development of work projects, aiming at their integration into the pedagogic practices in higher education. The research adopted a qualitative-quantitative approach, with the former being predominant, and it was carried out as action/intervention way with a group of a Marketing higher course composed of 34 voluntary students in the discipline "Communication" offered in the second term of the course, in a private institution of higher education in the city of Lins/SP. The survey also counted on the collaboration of a teacher who worked with the same class. The data were collected by a participating observation, semi-structured interviews, questionnaires and focus groups. According to this scenario, the methodological approach adopted for using mobile technologies in the classroom was the development of work projects getting to four projects: 1) Crosswords Game, an application that, among other skills, stimulates the memory capacity, enriches the vocabulary and helps the understanding of several subject-matters; 2) Contest by WhatsApp, since being the most used application by students, the group chose to use it as a channel for conducting a type of "contest" in the room itself; 3) Stop Motion Video, an important tool for the marketing professional, because it gives meaning and values to the signs in the communication process, since the image is essential in promoting brands and products; 4) A Game of Questions and Answers, an application aiming to test some knowledge and stimulate memory. The results were broadly satisfactory. From the students’ viewpoint, the work projects gave them a significant support in carrying out the activities, allowing them to correct the deviation and improving the final results, as well as the works permitted the insertion of mobile technologies in the classroom, giving them more autonomy and responsibility to develop their own projects. From the teacher point of view, the students practiced the team work and learned the matters in a collaborative way, by using tools that are already part of the routine of the Marketing professional. In addition, they experienced many procedures and attitudes involving concepts still unknown, and were co-responsible for their own learning process, with autonomy and responsibility. Analyzing the Work Projects from the Marketing professional viewpoint, the conclusion is that this methodology is an important tool beyond the professional qualification, by providing a better organization of any activities with educational purposes, in a more active manner.