Creative Teacher: a Workshop for the Dissemination of Digital Technologies to Assist the Teaching-Learning Process

Abstract

This article aims to report the experience of the Creative Professor workshop offered in the Moodle platform of the Pro-Rectory of Extension of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, for teachers and pre-service teachers during the Covid-19 pandemic. The workshop presented possibilities for building didactic materials using digital tools that can assist and enrich the teaching-learning process. This work also reports the perceptions of cursists about the workshop, the contributions it brought to the participants and also seeks to share the challenges and limitations that current and future teachers have been facing with regard to the use of digital technologies. For this, data were collected from the Moodle forums, forms and the work made by the cursists, using the content analysis method. The results demonstrate that most of the cursists have limitations to use digital technological resources. The participants also highlighted the need for these resources to be contemplated in the initial teacher's education.The motivations that led them to participate in the workshop are those of professional improvement and performance in the context of remote teaching. The participants had their expectations achieved and believe that learning will help in remote as well as in-person teaching. The works and the speeches of the cursists demonstrate the success of the workshop. Finally, the importance and the existing demand for workshops like this one to promote the continuing education of teachers is evidenced, especially now, in the face of this great challenge, during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Keywords: Online workshop. Continuing education. Digital technologies.