A importância da análise da paisagem para o ensino de geografia: os smartphones como uma ferramenta no processo de ensino-aprendizagem.

Abstract

This research aims to investigate how the landscape can be worked in the classroom through photographs produced by the students themselves with their mobile smartphone cameras. In order to do that, initially there was a literature review regarding the landscape study in the teaching of Geography, as well as on the use of Mobile and Wireless Technologies in the teaching-learning process. Also, questionnaires were applied to a ninth grade class composed of twenty-four students aged between fourteen and seventeen years old of a public elementary school, located at Pelotas/RS. Through the answers obtained in the questionnaires, it was possible to determine that the students in the class had cell phones with integrated camera and internet access, both through Wi-Fi and mobile networks. This fact enabled the planning of an activity which used these two features available on all devices. Because the subject for the trimester, according to the Geography curricular program, was the European continent, the students were invited to photograph landscape elements in the city of Pelotas that presented some type of European influences, due to the colonization processes that happened in the city, in the past. With that, the several landscapes portrayed by the students were analyzed, highlighting the importance of this kind of activity in the teaching and learning of geography in the classroom, showing that smartphones can be an important teaching tool in the construction process of geographical knowledge. It was possible to see that the analysis of the landscape of the city in which the students live can contribute to the perception they have about the world, as well as learning the geographical concepts that, usually, seem so far from reality, but are present in almost all daily actions