Children Literacy Through Learning Sotfwares

• Main Authors: Karina Matheus dos Santos, Monique Stahnke
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2011-10-01
• Series: Extensio: Revista Eletrônica de Extensão
• Subjects: Software de aprendizagem; Ensino-aprendizagem; Hipóteses de Escrita; Aprendizagem sem erros
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/extensio/article/view/12657

Means that incite curiosity and interest can greatly facilitate children’s learning process, and the digital world has become an essential tool in this area, providing both teachers and students with countless new opportunities. With such information the Children Literacy Through Learning Sotfwares project took effective place in UFSC’s Colégio de Aplicação school, using Mestre® (GOYOS e ALMEIDA, 1994). Five students, indicated by their teacher due to their difficulties in class to benefit from the project, were assisted in their literacy, being one of them with only impaired hearing, who benefited for being encouraged to develop auditory identification strategies. All of them developed motivational autonomy throughout the project, feeling more comfortable and motivated, always counting on their supervisors, who informed the teacher about each student’s performance while being observed. At the end of the project the teacher highlighted this program’s importance to child education, yet without making use of them herself. This project’s benefits have proven themselves necessary to those students’s development as individuals under learning process, allowing to acknowledge what  an educational software can do and must be in order to develop its potential as a  teaching tool, making the no-mistaking-learning advantages evident when it comes to respecting each student’s timing in learning.