Ensinar e aprender na cultura digital: novos caminhos de produção de sentidos por meio de redes sociais

Abstract

The contemporary processes of teaching and learning as well as teacher / student relationship, are gaining new contours from cyberculture practices. Specifically, ownership and uses of the Internet social networks by teachers and students, in its different forms, are changing the classroom space and time boundaries and producing new forms of relationship between these social actors. This dissertation is mainly aimed to investigate how the relationships established in two social networking, between teachers and students, affect its subjectivities and thus mediate the processes of teaching and learning. The research - conducted among secondary school students and teachers from a public & private partnership school in Rio de Janeiro – was developed observing them (students and teachers), their interactions in their own social networks, and by interviewing them in the school. The results revealed that the interactions happen in planned and unplanned processes, deal with curricular and non-curricular themes and may contribute to new forms of teaching and learning, in the digital culture, inside of this network of education possibilities.