Don't worry, today's class will be different: students' digital skills in Physical Education classes
Digital Skills; Digital Communication and Information Technologies; Physical education.
This research, “Don't worry, today's class will be different: students' digital skills in Physical Education classes”, was built on the question of how to improve students' digital skills in Physical Education classes according to the BNCC, so that they can use and create digital information and communication technologies in a critical, meaningful, reflective and ethical way in various social practices. Therefore, this research aimed to investigate the digital skills of high school students in physical education classes. The specific objectives were: to identify the difficulties of physical education students regarding digital skills; provide students with an understanding of the technological, cognitive and ethical dimensions of digital skills in physical education according to Calvani, Cartelli, Fini and Ranieri (2009); create an e-book to expand the possibilities of applying digital information and communication technologies (DIT) in physical education classes. The methodological path is based on a qualitative approach of the participant type, based on intervention, using the instruments lesson plan, observation script, questionnaire and digital artifact. Data analysis was carried out based on the list of student responses in the questionnaires and observation of the class, with no pre-categorization for the responses, however, these were divided into categories according to what emerged in the process. The research took place at Escola Estadual Professora Benigna Souza, in the city of Macapá-Amapá, with 67 students in the second year of Regular High School. It was possible to verify possibilities of working on students' digital skills using Physical Education content, allowing the development of their global learning.