Iara Rosa BUSTOS, Centro Educacional Pioneiro, Brazil
The use of online technologies resources in Geography classes can improve the abilities of student’s learning by promoting spatial learning. I developed two activities using an online digital map called GeoSampa which is a type of GIS-web developed by the City of São Paulo to consult its inhabitants about geographic information of these city. It is an online platform that can be accessed via the internet or tablet. The activities consisted in two levels of proposals, one easier was about seven questions about the surrounding school to make the first contact with the digital map and the second one was ten questions about our big city and students’ lived space. To answer all these questions, students should use necessarily the GeoSampa because information about points, lines, areas and ortophotos of different time of São Paulo was specific to this resource. All the 54 students of 11 years old in 2020 did the two activities and shared the answers on Jamboard to show how they did the activities and after that, 25 students answered about how was the experience about using the GeoSampa. I found that 48% of students liked the experience with GeoSampa, 32% of students reported difficulty and overcoming the experience with GeoSampa and 20% of students did not like the experience. I consider that for 80% of the sample, the proposed activity using GeoSampa tends to be valid for continuity for the next classes of the same year in the coming years. Since then, I’m improving the activities every year as an online resource to develop specific questions about the lived space and develop step by step geographical reasoning under a constructive mapping as psychological space, important to develop spatial learning under Bruner’s Theory of evolution of the minds of the learners. I also found that the pandemic context was a good oportunity to explore this type of resource and now it is a normal practice since then.
Mots clés : Geography Education|Online Technologies|Spatial Learning|Learning process|Lived Space
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