Proposal of educational podcast for scientific literacy classes in engineering and computer science courses

Technological advances in the 21^st century, especially in areas related to portability and mobility enabled the popularity of this kind of equipment for audio sharing, like educational podcasts. Podcasts are characterized as audio or video episodes with information that are made available on the Internet, allowing users to subscribe and automatically receive updates. Podcasts can complement face-to-face or virtual educational proposals through the establishment of learning dynamics that make the review and memorization/recovering process of topics worked in class simpler and more direct. They can also be used in scientific literacy classes as an element to establish a communication channel in the likes of a conversation, for example when dealing with another researcher in engineering and computer science courses. This approach can be combined with other computational resources with the intent of making the research and development process more contextualized and practical. As a result, it can expand the possibilities of interaction between teachers and students and make the process of knowledge construction more meaningful. In this sense, this paper presents a proposal for podcast episodes concerning scientific literacy, especially to research project development and the basic elements of scientific writing. It aims to contribute to the establishment of dynamics that facilitate the first challenges of novice researchers.