Repercussões de um projeto de monitoria em um laboratório de informática para a formação dos monitores

Abstract

In this research we aimed to identify which contributions, under a constructionist perspective,a monitorship project that was developed at an informatics laboratory in a public municipal school in Rio Grande do Sul State, brought to the formation of the respective monitors. To identify these contributions, we started from the research questions: Which attitude s changes the participation in a monitorship project provokes on the monitors? Which knowledge is constructed by the monitors that participate in the monitorship project at the informatics laboratory? And how a monitorship project at an informatics laboratory contributes to the mathematics teaching and learning process? To get to the answers, we proceeded with collecting the monitors' reports during their period of action at the informatics laboratory, interviews were done with teachers and notes and observations were made into the laboratory teacher's field diary. We used the qualitative methodology and, to analyze the data, we used the critical discourse analysis (CDA). Comparing the data found in the reports, from the interviews and in the field diary, we evidenced significative changes in the monitors attitude relating to the learning and their cooperative posture towards the other students, besides a raise in their responsibilities in the other scholastic spaces and in the motivation to learn. It was possible to identify the construction of the mathematics knowledge in the TICs use, in the teaching and learning process, in an evident way, mainly in the Logo activities, in which we had the creation of strategies and the construction of new mathematics knowledge by the monitors, such as the rotation and translation movements. The monitors recognized that the teaching in the laboratory was enjoyable and motivating with the help of the softwares, besides the use of a more familiar language from students facilitated the mathematics learning