Panorama
The advancement of technology has been transforming the consumption of information, the search for knowledge, even relationships and directly impacting learning. The use of smartphones in the classroom today is a significant difference in education as much as Uber in transportation, Airbnb in real estate rental, Netflix on television and Startups in the economy. our role in this, as educators, is to keep up with these advances, adapt to new platforms and use technology to our advantage. It is in this scenario that a pedagogical challenge arises.: how textbooks can interact with technology? The answer is exactly this: interaction.
(Text by Leonardo Secchi, PhD in Political Science from the University of Milan (Italy), published in Gaucha ZH/Opinião in 18/09/2018)
Technology description
The technology developed at UFRGS consists of a digital platform that offers comprehensive material, detailed and coherent about mathematics and its applications, with an innovative format that encourages activity and experimentation by the reader/user.
The platform makes it possible for:
- students access via cell phone, tablet or PC, detailed material, read and experiment freely;
- instructors/teachers can use the content, Graphic resources, platform calculators and exercises to present math in an interesting way;
- learning math becomes more effective, through interaction with the content and feedbacks that the platform offers for each exercise.
Status
Protected and licensed computer program
Access and start using: https://exatas.xyz/