Metodologia para desenvolvimento de um aplicativo de física para auxílio em aulas do ensino superior

Abstract

The use of multimedia resources in curricular components is increasingly present in the everyday of students and teachers of higher education. Educational resources such as mind map, video lessons, simulations, info graphics, podcasts, animations, experiments and mobile applications have been use as a tool to aid in the development of learning, especially during remote education in the years 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic of Covid-19. The use of applications on mobile devices such as smartphones is present in educational institutions, proving to be prosperous and constantly evolving. In this work, we want to demonstrate the feasibility of using mobile devices such as smartphones to support in physics classes by developing an educational application mobile at the Federal University of Pampa, campus Itaqui, RS. To analyze this feasibility, we applied a form with twenty-seven questions to the students of the campus and a research on the different apps for teaching Physics. In addition, we started to develop the mobile application “FísicaPampa” to be use in the curricular components of Physics as support in the development of learning. The evaluation form showed that most of the respondent students are between 23 and 27 years old, and study of Interdisciplinary Bachelor of Science and Technology course. With respect to the Physics components, we have that most students are not register in Physics components in the current semester, but have already reported having attended General Physics or Physics. Regarding the feasibility of the Physics mobile app, 76 percent of students considers the use of smartphones in the classroom in the Physics components as positive, defining them as “good” and “great”. In addition, in the results section we present the screens developed in the application that show some of the features described in the methodology, projected in Figma. With this work, we intend to unite technology in favor of a more dynamic teaching, developing in the expansion of the study and in the learning of the science of Physics in an interactive way. After verifying and accepting the feasibility of this proposal, it is intend to make its software available to other Brazilian universities.