Geografia e Google Earth na Sala de Aula: Proximidades, Diálogos e Aprendizagens

Abstract

Today we use digital technologies for various activities, be they professional or recreational, that's why we thought about joining the Google Earth tool to the teaching of Geography. In this context, the main objective of this article is to analyze the potential and the relevance of the use of digital technologies, with a specific focus on the Google Earth tool for the construction of a fictitious post card addressing the knowledge and categories of Geography. In the search for this investigation, the study is part of an epistemic methodological approach of a qualitative and collaborative nature, through which a pedagogical practice and a questionnaire applied to 27 students from a class in the ninth elementary school of a public school were carried out Florianópolis / SC, in 2018. The results showed, in general, that students were accessible and flexible to build knowledge of school geography through digital technologies. Accompanied by this evidence, the results signaled that students do not have frequent contact with these technologies in the discipline of Geography, because of this, they reported that the lack of more interactive methodologies makes Geography classes become descriptive and not very interesting.