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INTRODUCING DNA CONCEPTS TO SWISS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS BASED ON A BRAZILIAN EDUCATIONAL GAME
Biologia molecular
Abordagem baseada em inquérito
Aprendizado baseado em problemas
Métodos e abordagens técnicas de ensino e aprendizagem
Estudantes do ensino médio
Jogos
inquiry-based approach
Molecular biology
Problem-based learning
Teaching and learning techniques methods and approaches,
High school students
Games
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biologia Celular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Universidade Federal Fluminense. Instituto de Biologia. Departamento de Biologia Celular e Molecular.Niterói, RJ, Brasil.
Universidade Estácio de Sá. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Haute Ecole Pèdagogique—BEJUNE. La Chaux-de-Fonds, Suisse.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biologia Celular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biologia Celular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Universidade Federal Fluminense. Instituto de Biologia. Departamento de Biologia Celular e Molecular.Niterói, RJ, Brasil.
Universidade Estácio de Sá. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Haute Ecole Pèdagogique—BEJUNE. La Chaux-de-Fonds, Suisse.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biologia Celular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biologia Celular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Abstract
Subjects such as techniques for genetic diagnosis, cloning, sequencing, and gene therapy are now part of our lives and raise important questions about ethics, future medical diagnosis, and such. Students from different countries observe this explosion of biotechnological applications regardless of their social, academic, or cultural backgrounds, although they are not usually familiar with their theoretical genetic bases. To introduce some molecular biology concepts for high school students, we developed a new problem for the Brazilian board game ‘‘Discovering the cell’’ (‘‘Ce´ lula Adentro ’’ in Portuguese), a pedagogic tool based on inquiry-, cooperative-, and problem-based learning. This problem (Case) is based on the forensic DNA, which represents an interesting theme for students, as it recurrently appears on newspapers and television series. In this work, we tested this game with secondary students and teachers from Switzerland. Our results indicate that the game ‘‘Discovering the cell’’ is well accepted by both students and teachers and may represent a good pedagogical approach to help teaching complex themes in molecular biology, even with students from different socioeconomical, cultural, and academic backgrounds.
Keywords in Portuguese
DNABiologia molecular
Abordagem baseada em inquérito
Aprendizado baseado em problemas
Métodos e abordagens técnicas de ensino e aprendizagem
Estudantes do ensino médio
Jogos
Keywords
DNAinquiry-based approach
Molecular biology
Problem-based learning
Teaching and learning techniques methods and approaches,
High school students
Games
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