O uso de simulações computacionais como ferramenta facilitadora do aprendizado dos tópicos de física moderna no ensino médio

Abstract

Studies show that the use of information and communication Technologies contributes to the educational practice at any level of education. However, it requires changes in teachers' working methods, generating changes in the functioning of institutions and the education system. A technology information and educational communication must involve some kind of material object that is part of the educational practice on the teaching process with some kind of relationship between teacher-technology and technology-student. In our work we aim to investigate a didactic intervention as a computer simulation can help the teaching of modern physics content in high school. Among the contents of Modern Physics to be addressed in high school, the Discovery of the photoelectric effect is shown a major Miles tone in the history of Science because of the great conceptual impact on the physics and especial technological. Therefore, this paper aims to present an educational proposal, based on the combination of two practical activities (experimental and computer simulation) that rescue all the historical context of the construction of this knowledge and that allows to address this phenomenon as a whole, as well as discuss the theoretical, philosophical and technological implications of this Discovery.