Atletismo na educação física escolar: a elaboração colaborativa do software Atletic

The changes caused by Digital Technologies of Information and Communication (DTIC) present new challenges for Education, which must incorporate these technologies, provide new mediations and pedagogical proposals to meet the changing needs of society. In today's context and the evidence of the lack of teaching materials targeted to athletics and the difficulty that physical education teachers still find to work with that content in their classes, the general objective of this research was to develop, collaboratively, a software with teachers of Physical Education for the process of teaching and learning in school athletics. The specific objective was to analyze the collaborative development process of a software, checking its challenges and contributions in the training of teachers and the work with athletics with the insertion of DTIC in school. The methodology used is qualitative, with action-research elements. The research was developed in two stages that are complementary, the first module of the course of continuing training of teachers, called "Athletics Pedagogy", with the participation of 21 teachers of Physical Education from Municipal schools in Goiânia, was conducted using a survey of difficulties and needs of the teachers in the development of the work with athletics in Physical Education classes; studies were conducted, reflections, discussions and experiences directed to athletics, and the software ATLETIC was developed, which addresses the events of the high jump, pole vault, javelin throw, discus throw, hammer throw, and weight throw, according to suggestions, needs, and interests presented by the teachers. The second stage of the research was completion of the second module of the course "Athletics Pedagogy", with the participation of 13 teachers who participated in the first stage of the research. At this stage, we deepen the discussion on the entry of DTIC in physical education classes, especially considering the possibilities of working with athletes, and the teachers prepared, and conducted interventions in schools with the implementation of ATLETIC. The results of this trial revealed that the process of continuing education along with the collaborative development of ATLETIC gave the opportunity to the teachers to build knowledge that contributed to overcoming the difficulties in working with athletic events addressed in the process. Taught the teachers to use DTIC, since now they recognize the contributions and the importance of the technologies to the training of students, gave teachers a level of satisfaction and increased self-esteem caused by involvement in the development of ATLETIC, and provided for the development of educational practices directed to different events of athletics with the insertion of ATLETIC, and other DTIC that present contributions to the teaching and learning of athletics in School Physical Education.