Um estudo comparativo entre metodologias ativas para desenvolvimento de habilidades de pensamento computacional no ensino de robótica

Abstract

With the inclusion of teaching of computing in basic education, through a Resolution that instituted and guided the implementation of the Common National Curricular Base (know as BNCC in Brazil) application of computational thinking and robotics for basic education will be more and more presents as compatible didactic resources with increasing skills and society's abilities to awaken the student as an agent capable of analyzing and investigating the adversities of the present day, which is immersed in technological solutions.In this sense, we seek in this study to analyze the progress of two classroom groups during the learning of computational thinking, using a robotics kit as an educational tool, taught through two active teaching methodologies: gamification, in the morning class, and learning based in problematics, in the afternoon class. In order to understand the students' evolution level and thus be able to compare the two methodologies, a pre-test was applied in the first class and a post-test in the last class in both classrooms. Both the pre-test and the post-test contain the same twenty questions and to solve them, the students used the concepts of the four pillars of computational thinking. From the data collected, we can understand that the level of students' knowledge absorption in activities that require decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction and algorithms can vary from pillar to pillar, not only according to the active methodology used in the course, as also with adverse factors such as the age of the students, since students under twelve have abstract thinking still in the development.