Frontier Experience: digital media inside the classroom / Experiências de fronteira: os meios digitais em sala de aula
AUTOR(ES)
Lina Maria Braga Mendes
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2009
RESUMO
The use of new technology for classroom teaching has become focus of attention for many researchers and educational institutions. Beyond the fact that digital inclusion provides individuals with access to cultural production, the presence of digital media in the classroom has been a good pathway towards approaching the students, who deal with computers, cell phones and a multitude of electronic devices on a day-to-day basis. By adopting the use of digital resources (such as websites, blogs, email, chats, podcasts and hypermedia) as a means of presentation and dissemination of research work in class and as support to education, encouraging discussion and debate, we have in mind that our students, born in the midst of technological changes experienced in the past 20 years, show they are familiar with the languages which build the digital universe the cyberspace. Therefore, considering the importance of technology education for the promotion of digital inclusion and the growing demand of parents, students and institutions towards schools investing more in technology and in development of skills related to it, our study aims to evaluate and propose the use of two digital resources in Education: hypermedia and blogs. For that purpose, it includes literature concerning their configuration and the relations between Education and Technology. In addition, it discusses experiences with students in both Elementary School and High School at a private school in the municipality of São Paulo, and it presents the views of some of the teachers involved. Thus, we intend to help teachers, who are interested in making use of these resources as teaching tools, to better understand some of the contributions Technology has made available for them in the field of Education and to feel encouraged to use them in their practices.
ASSUNTO(S)
blogs and education gêneros digitais hipermídia e educação blog e educação inclusão digital digital inclusion new technologies and teaching novas tecnologias e ensino tecnologia e educação technology and education digital genres hypermedia and education
