Learning projects and digital technologies: reflections on teaching practice in EJA in High School

Abstract

This article presents an account of the work developed within the scope of a research project under development in the Postgraduate Program in Mathematics Teaching at UFRGS, in the research line Digital Information and Communication Technologies in Mathematics Education. The research work, in the format of a pilot experiment, sought to observe the collective work of students of the Youth and Adult Education program in High School when exploring and constructing contexts that involved learning projects. The theoretical framework used was the concept of cooperation proposed by Jean Piaget to understand how students, collectively and through a qualitative methodology involving work with learning projects, articulate and construct mathematical ideas based on the themes explored. This stage of the research took place in a public school in Porto Alegre in 2024 and used the Chromebooks® provided by the institution, making the teaching practice immersed in an interactive digital environment. Data production involved classroom observations, recordings of students' technological interactions, and, at the end, the application of a questionnaire to understand students' perceptions of the experience during the pilot experiment. Preliminary results point to challenges for the implementation of this work methodology and highlight the importance of cooperative work and student engagement as essential factors for the construction of knowledge. During the next stages of the project, we hope to contribute with reflections on the improvement of teaching practices in Youth and Adult Education, with emphasis on the potential use of the Learning Projects methodology combined with the use of digital technologies in the classroom.