Geotecnologias aplicadas ao ensino de geografia: um recurso tecnológico de aprendizado para o ensino médio.

Abstract

Information technology is increasingly present in school life, either via the Internet or other multimedia. Understanding the spatiality of the phenomena studied, the present and the past, and compare it with their overlapping, is something that own search geography do, and understand and use the cartographic language, expanding the possibilities of students to analyze information in various fields of knowledge, and contribute to the development of a space notion. The project goal was to apply the geo usage possibilities as an incentive to the teaching of geography in EEEFM Pliny Lemos, the municipality of Puxinanã – PB, seeking to verify the temporal vision of the students about their environment and changes over of time. A questionnaire in class 3rd year average was applied, morning shift, where 50% said they know what they are geotechnology and who have access to the genus software (Google Earth, Wikimapia and Global Positioning System-GPS), 73.8% said they did not have experienced difficulty in answering the questionnaire, however, the time used to answer the same and the times in which the questionnaire applicators were called to answer questions show otherwise. Importantly, 85.7% of students said they had never heard that term by the subject teacher.