Teachers Dialoguing About Statistical Literacy With Support of Messenger App for Smartphones

Abstract

Despite the possibilities of interactions and sharing information, only few studies investigated the use of messenger apps as a pedagogical tool. This paper reflects on possible uses of messenger app as a way to share and expand knowledge about the teaching and learning of statistics. The discussion is based on theoretical perspectives on statistics education, critical mathematics education and M-learning. A pilot study was conducted with early years elementary school Brazilian teachers. In this paper we discuss results from participants' responses to an online questionnaire. The results indicated that participants frequently use WhatsApp application and email on daily basis. Regarding the teachers' previous teaching of statistics, their responses suggested that they know about statistical graphs and they already approached pedagogical activities on statistical contents. Further stages of this study will explore in-service teacher education situations in which the use of Whatsapp might assist discussions and elaborations of pedagogical activities in school and extra-school contexts.

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