Teaching about light on pandemic times: an experience of collaborative work

Authors

  • Facundo Dyszel Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Instituto CeFIEC, Argentina.
  • Patricia Luppi niversidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Instituto CeFIEC, Argentina.
  • Cecilia Acevedo niversidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Instituto CeFIEC, Argentina.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55767/2451.6007.v33.n2.35209

Keywords:

Physics Education, Elementary School, Collaborative Work, Pandemic.

Abstract

The conditions to achieve and sustain the involvement of primary-level students of a socio-educational program of the City of Buenos
Aires in a teaching proposal on optics via WhatsApp, during the 2020 pandemic were investigated. The proposal was prepared by a
group of researchers and teachers that includes the authors. The research is descriptive-interpretive and framed in cooperative design
engineering. The distance modality blurred the spatial and temporal delimitation of the school device, which affected class work. The
exchanges between students and teachers took place through a group chat, at the time or delayed, sometimes privately to the teacher;
and, in general, they were not read between pairs. The modifications that had to be applied to teaching and the obstacles to encouraging
debate between students' interpretations and what was proposed as an explanation were analyzed. It was evidenced that the
students were becoming interested and questioning themselves about the different phenomena, relating them to each other and to
their life experiences. By way of conclusion, the children's reflections invite us to rethink the problematization of natural phenomena
in the classroom and the scope of possible conceptualizations in present context.

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Published

2021-11-05

Issue

Section

Investigación en Enseñanza de la Física

How to Cite

Teaching about light on pandemic times: an experience of collaborative work. (2021). Journal of Physics Teaching, 33(2), 219-226. https://doi.org/10.55767/2451.6007.v33.n2.35209