The use of the padlet application as a digital pedagogical ressourcer to mediate learning in technological education

Abstract

The use of digital technologies in pedagogical practices are included in the regulations of Brazilian legislation and this makes possible current teaching and learning activities. In view of the emerging need to use electronic resources, this article intends to analyze an academic exercise mediated by mean of digital wall in order to contribute to the training of graduate professors in technological education. The study aimed to report an experience of pedagogical practice on the conceptualization of technological teaching and collaborative construction mediated by mean of a digital wall. As regards methodology, this is a qualitative and descriptive research, with results in content analysis. The study participants were twenty-seven masters and doctoral students attending a postgraduate course at a public higher education institution in Manaus, Amazonas. Data were collected in two different moments: during the exhibition of a video and the mediated understanding on the Padlet wall, on the internet. The results obtained demonstrated the effective collaboration between the digital resource and the mediation of knowledge. In conclusion, we highlight the possibilities of interaction of the electronic resource from the evidence established with the critical and reflective responses of the participants.