BLENDED LEARNING IN FOCUS: OXIGENATED ORGANIC FUNCTIONS TEACHING STRATEGIES.
Chemistry Teaching. Blended Learning. Flipped learning. Collaboration. ICT. Active Learning. Mediation.
The current research aimed to develop a didactic sequence steered toward the teaching of oxygenated organic functional groups, using the Blended Learning model combined to flipped learning, using ICT tools. The main references were Horn & Stacker (2015), Bacich, Tanzi Neto and Trevisani (2015) and Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams (2016). The project has been carried out in a 3rd Grade High School class of a public school in the city of Mataraca-PB. It was used the case study methodology to investigate and analyze students' behavior, performance and impressions with the provided strategy, in order to understand the results deeply. The goal was to make students apply previous studies of the content learned from the videos, through various activities, collaborating through the group learning. It was intended to be observed whether the discussions between the students in groups became more independent of the teacher, and if they shared their own ways of learning and could contribute collectively to build their knowledge. It was expected the students could, through the lessons presented on the YouTube platform and in-class exercises, report positively the Blended Learning model linked to the flipped learning, due to the possibility of reviewing the content whenever they need and also being able to clear their doubts online before the in-class moments, thus powering the teaching-learning process. Thus, it is proposed to show that this model is a strategy that allied to teaching, allows students to create spaces for interaction and understanding of the addressed contents more independently and active way, being encouraged to enrich the face-to-face moments exchanging knowledge and experiences, so the traditional teaching shaped barriers can be broken to answer the needs of a connected generation.