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Introduction: The Health at School Program provides the action “Promotion of hearing health and identification of students with possible signs of alteration”. Objective: To identify the proportion of students who show behaviors indicative of audiological changes, in two schools in the municipal teaching network of Macaé. Development: A descriptive study was carried out, with students between 8 and 14 years old, from two schools in Macaé, in 2018. A form was used with information on behaviors indicative of hearing loss, indicated by the student himself. Of the 199 students, 46.2% were from school 1 and 53.8% were from school 2. As for the behavior indicative of audiological changes, for the option ALWAYS the greatest proportions were: they turned their heads towards the teacher or colleague’s voices when talking (25.6%); they have difficulty hearing what the teacher says when they write the material on the blackboard from the back (16.1%); have difficulty speaking what they are thinking (11.1%); feel a ringing in the ear (12.6%). Conclusion: Turning your head in the direction of the teacher or colleague's voice when speaking and having difficulty hearing what the teacher says when writing from the back were the major audiological changes.

This article aims at reflecting upon the non-governmental social assistance network for children and adolescents in the city of Campos dos Goytacazes (Brazil), considering that they play an important role in the process of establishing the Sistema de Garantia de Direitos das Crianças e Adolescentes (System for Guaranteeing the Rights of Children and Adolescents), recommended by the Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (Statute of the Child and Adolescent). The study also tries to point out the contradictory dimensions of these organizations in as far as they tend to contribute to removing the State's responsibility in offering essential services to the child and adolescent population and the fragmentation of actions. The analyses are based on documentation and field research developed by non-governmental institutions registered in the Conselho Municipal de Promoção dos Direitos das Crianças e Adolescentes (City Council for Promoting the Rights of the Child and Adolescent). This study is important to identify the answers to expressions of the existing social issues in the State and society, aiming at formulating professional answers, especially in the area of Social Service which, considering the relations between public and private institutions, could culminate in the strengthening and broadening of rights.

In the educational context, active methodologies are guidelines that orient pedagogical action in which the student is the protagonist of his learning process. This article aims to present the analysis of contributions and challenges of using the Think-Pair-Share active-learning technique, supported by the use of an online simulator, for the teaching and learning process of rectifiers, in Analog Electronics classes of a technical course in Industrial Automation. The research was qualitative, of the pedagogical intervention type. The data, collected by pre-test and post-test, observation during the application of a didactic sequence and questionnaire, showed that the proposal brought significant contributions to the teaching-learning process, although there was some resistance in terms of more participatory postures.

Despite scientific and technological advances, education is still linked to more traditional approaches. However, innovative measures are beginning to emerge in the area, enabling the creation of opportunities and ways to learn and teach. The present work presents the analysis of one of such measures, Google Classroom, used as a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) in order to contribute to student learning in an online extension course. To achieve this, a virtual classroom was created containing potentially significant materials to promote a more effective learning of the concepts related to the selected theme, Spectroscopy in the Infrared Region. The experiment demonstrated that Google Classroom is an excellent virtual environment that can be used in distance learning, providing efficient collaboration between teachers and students. In addition, it was also noted that the students found this VLE easy to use and that, despite missing some important tools, it reached its goal.

Digital technologies are increasingly present in daily life and have boosted the emergence of new teaching practices. At that, this study aimed to present the pedagogical possibilities of Quick Response Codes through an experiment made in a semi-presence minicourse in which a competition named GymCode was used as a pedagogical strategy. For this purpose, a qualitative research was carried out with 15 students enrolled in the latter half of the Physical Education Teaching Course. The data collected through the questionnaire answered by the participants were analyzed according to the theoretical framework. It was found that the QR code technology can be used by teachers as a pedagogical resource to mediate student knowledge. It is expected that the study will contribute and encourage reflections on the use of digital technologies in the teaching and learning process.

This article presents the application of a didactic sequence with 9th grade students from two Junior High Schools in the municipalities of Itaperuna and Porciúncula, both in the state of Rio de Janeiro. We addressed the classroom theme “water resources”, using the Problem-Based Active Learning methodology as well as the integration of Art and Science, based on Ausubel's Theory of Meaningful Learning. The work aimed at raising student awareness about the importance of water resources using photographic language. To identify the subsumers, a brainstorming survey was carried out followed by activities with texts, videos and debates. After this, photographs were taken and concept maps were drawn up, culminating in an exhibition for the school community.

Mobile apps can be good didactic resources, favoring different pedagogical actions. However, it is important to make a careful selection of the app for educational purposes, and evaluate the aspects that can influence the objectives. This article aims to present a quality analysis of six apps with the potential to support the teaching of reading and literacy. The evaluation was made by four teachers in early Elementary School, during a short course organized for this purpose. The research had a qualitative character, and the data, collected through an evaluation form and analyzed based on theoretical references, made it possible to observe positive features and some limitations in the apps.

This paper discusses the training of IT undergraduates and professionals to develop quality software which include skills and competences on software quality. Given that the software quality discipline involves extensive theoretical content, strategies to motivate and provide student learning, such as the use of digital games, are crucial. This paper aims at presenting the Qualif software and its comparison with 14 other digital games that support the teaching and learning of software quality. The games were identified using systematic literature mapping. The comparison was based on a tailored taxonomy for educational serious games. The results showed that Brazil is one of the main countries where research in the area of games to the discipline of software quality is carried out. In addition, the research evidenced namely genres, platforms, characteristics and assessment methods applied to the selected games.

Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a network of physical objects that can connect with each other, through the Internet, allowing data collection and transmission. In this context, this article aims to present the analysis of data from two Systematized Literature Reviews on scientific production related to IoT applications in the educational context. The first review was promoted in 2018, based on international works published in 2017, identified in the Scopus database. The second, held in 2020, considered national works identified in the annals of the Brazilian Symposium on Informatics in Education, over a three-year period, from 2017 to 2019. In both cases, aspects such as objectives, resources, used procedures and research results in the area were analyzed. In general, the first review carried out highlighted the customization of learning as a possible significant contribution by IoT to education. The works of the second review, on the other hand, focused on improving the teaching and learning process through the use of IoT.

Technical Drawing is an important content in several courses in Vocational and Technological Education. However, in the pedagogical process related to the theme, students' difficulties are observed in the representation of three-dimensional objects due to the limited development of spatial vision. Thus, it is considered that Augmented Reality contributes to educational actions related to spatial perception and that the use of applications aids to teaching and learning. Therefore, the objective of this work is to describe how the authors developed an Augmented Reality mobile application that aims at facilitating students' understanding of Technical Drawing, as it is a tool that helps the pedagogical process.