Produção de um guia metodológico: customização da plataforma Escolas na Rede no Rio Grande do Norte

Abstract

This study discusses the customization of the “Schools on the Network” Platform (PER) in the State of Rio Grande do Norte (RN), the result of a partnership with the platform Digital School. The objective was, in general, to produce a methodological guide of customization to contribute with the platform Schools on the Network in the RN. In order to meet this objective, the team's challenges and potentialities that the platform presents in the customization process within the State Department of Education and Culture (SEEC/RN) were observed, with a view to proposing a new dynamics for the team in the act of customizing content. The theoretical framework was anchored in the discussions about customization, educational technology, Digital Technologies of Information and Communication (TDIC), Virtual Learning Environments (AVA), learning objects (OA) and digital learning objects (ODA), based on the authors: Litwin, Almeida and Valente, Valentini and Soares, Alonso, Silva and Maciel, Willey, Schwarzelmüller and Ornellas. The study adopted a qualitative approach, divided into two stages: the first dealt with the exploration and immersion of the empirical field, with characteristics of the exploratory research and nuances of the ethnographic case study. To do so, was used procedures and instruments such as questionnaire, interviews, participant observation, official documents and field notes. The second stage consisted of the production and validation of a digital platform customization guide, in which the methodological development method was adopted, in order to produce a didactic material validated by specialists and by the target audience. The data indicated that the challenges in the customization are of technological infrastructure, of the management and pedagogical. Regarding the potentialities that the platform presents, is the interactivity of users and the fact that it is a teacher-student mediation tool with didactic material that is consistent with the local reality. From the field exploration, the guide was produced and validated by the Content Validity Index (IVC), reaching the maximum mark (1.00). Thus, it is expected that, with the current research, it will be possible to contribute to the PER customization process and, consequently, to the public education of the RN, which has a customized digital platform with content inherent to the diversified part of the school curriculum.