Infographic Project: experience report on teaching Information Design in a Vocational High School

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https://doi.org/10.51358/id.v20i2.1100

Abstract

In this article we reflect on the contribution of design thinking, inherent to Information Design, to the teaching-learning processes in Basic Education, specifically in Secondary Education Integrated with Vocational Education. The paper presents the process of creating interactive infographics experienced by the students and analyzes how educational practice through Design-Based Learning can contribute to the understanding of the contents of regular education and to the development of basic skills for contemporary young people. We also describe how we relied on the agile culture to facilitate the development of the students' projects. This, in turn, was incorporated by them into the collaborative work carried out throughout the process of creating the infographics. Finally, we highlight the importance of proposing a school model where production and design play a prominent role.

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Christiane Mello Guimarães de Oliveira, Estúdio Versalete

Christiane Mello holds a degree in Design from UFRJ's School of Fine Arts and a Master's in Communications Design from the Pratt Institute (full scholarship from Capes). She taught Interface Design and led projects for students from various disciplines for six years on the Multimedia Technical Course at NAVE-Rio Program (Oi Futuro/SEEDUC-RJ). She was a substitute teacher on the Visual Communication/Design course at UFRJ's School of Fine Arts. She has worked on postgraduate courses in Design at Famath, Instituto Europeo di Design (IED-Rio) and Miami Ad School. She took part in Educação 360 STEAM event, organized by the O Globo and Extra newspapers, and in Sesc Nacional's Jornada de Atualização, giving workshops on Education, Design and Technology. She works promoting creative education for teachers at HackeArte and is a partner and director of Estúdio Versalete, an office specializing in editorial design.

Bruno Ferraz de Melo, PUC-Rio

Bruno Ferraz has a degree in Design from the School of Fine Arts - UFRJ. He pursued a Master's degree in Systems Engineering and Computer Graphics at COPPE/UFRJ and continued his studies by pursuing a Ph.D. at PUC-RJ, where he researches data visualization and storytelling design. He worked in the field of visual narrative development across various sectors such as games, animation, and illustration. He has extensive experience in creating storyboards for animated films and managing multimedia projects. "Retornável," a film he produced and directed, received the 2015 Animamulti award (Popular Jury) at Anima Mundi and the Green Nation 2016 trophies (Official and Popular Jury). As an educator, he taught the Authoring course and led projects for students from various disciplines in the Multimedia Technical Course at NAVE-Rio (Oi Futuro/SEEDUC-RJ) and also served as a substitute professor at ECO-UFRJ, teaching computer graphics, production technology, web design for journalism, and creating the animation course. He participated in the Americanas Futuro-lab training project, mentored by the ExACTa initiative at PUC-RJ, and currently works as a Scrum master in the innovation sector of OceanPact Serviços Marítimos S.A., a company focused on developing secure and efficient solutions for the sustainable use of the oceans.

Mônica Maria Ferreira da Costa, UERJ-ZO

Mônica Costa holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from PUC-Rio, with a Master's and Doctorate in Computer Science also from PUC-Rio. During a post-doctoral period, she worked at the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a special interest in innovative approaches to Education, particularly those that explore the possibilities arising from the use of technology. Between 2008 and 2015, she worked as the Coordinator of the Multimedia Technical Course at the NAVE-Rio Program (Oi Futuro/SEEDUC-RJ) and was responsible for the pedagogical strategy of the course. In 2017, she proposed a course for educators dedicated to promoting reflection on what the school of the 21st century should be, taught at PUC-Rio. In 2018, she participated in the Educação 360 STEAM event, organized by the newspapers O Globo and Extra, where she conducted a workshop for educators on Project Methodology Applied to App Creation. She is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Exact Sciences and Engineering at UERJ-ZO, where she coordinates the IdeiaLab, a laboratory for promoting innovation in the industry and for the experimentation of active teaching methodologies.

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Published

2023-11-07

How to Cite

Mello Guimarães de Oliveira, C., Ferraz de Melo, B., & Ferreira da Costa, M. M. (2023). Infographic Project: experience report on teaching Information Design in a Vocational High School. InfoDesign - Journal of Information Design, 20(2). https://doi.org/10.51358/id.v20i2.1100

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Vol. 20 No. 2 (2023)

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