Aprendizagem e construção do conhecimento nas redes digitais

Abstract

The influence of the practices and resources coming from the face-to-face teaching, and the philosophical speculations about the social and cognitive transformations promoted by the expansion of the digital networks and telecommunication technologies, are both impediments to create a more appropriate theoretical perspective about the educational use of the available environments in the nets. The investigation of the spontaneous uses of those in the daily life, is the most efficient form of discovering characteristics and elements capable of contributing for the construction of a compatible theoretical perspective with educational purposes. This study analyzes the communicative interactions among the participants of newsgroups, groups of discussion on the Internet, and try to elaborate a perspective about the construction of the knowledge in the digital nets and, starting from that, offer theoretical support for a pragmatic foundation for use of the information technology in Education. The conceptual contribution used as a starting point arises the theoretical formulations of Winograd & Flores, Habermas, Himanen and Vigotsky.