"Se meu pai viesse aqui hoje nessa escola, ele não ia aprender": Cibercultura e processos de ensino-aprendizagem

Abstract

The society in which we live is undergoing major transformations that influence the ways of constructing knowledge and relay information, the forms of relating with other people, the way of perceiving the world and himself in the world. These changes are marked by interactivity, connectivity, speed, multilinearity, complexity and fragmentation so prevalent in digital culture. The contemporary young people who had been born in the middle of these changes, live these brands in their daily cultural practices, constructing a new logic that guides their way of perceiving and acting in society. However, while young people guide their actions from that logic that I call in this work of cybercultural, they live a linear logic inside the school, which produce a gap between youth culture and school culture. Searching to contribute to construct pedagogical practices concerning the needs of contemporary youth, this study aimed to investigate the digital technologies as their role as mediators in the teaching-learning process. The study was developed in a high school integrated in the northern zone of Rio de Janeiro, where the students have access, full time, on the subjects in the curriculum of MEC integrated to the disciplines of technical training related to digital technologies. This project is the result of a partnership between the Education Department of the State of Rio de Janeiro with a private institute, whose the objective is construct a space of research and innovations in education. The research was configured as a case study, although some reflections can contribute to wider debates in education. The study was supported theoretical and methodological by the Latin American Cultural Studies (Martín-Barbero and Canclini), which contributes to reflect on the role of mediation and the processes of reception the communication media. It is based also on studies of youth (Dayrell and Carrano) who helped to construct a way to look to the young people respondents from the place and active protagonist of their practices inside and outside of school. Complementing these theoretical contributions, the work is based also on studies of the relation of subjects with virtual or cybercultural environments (Lévy, Lemos and Santaella). The interviews with young people and school teachers and the classroom observations were exercises to construct a responsive look, inspired in Mikhail Bakhtin. This work was woven in a dialogic perspective, trying to bring to the printed text the experiences in the field and the debates initiated from these experiences and propose some ways to contribute to a school more meaningful to the contemporary times.