Trabalho colaborativo em rede no Projeto Um Computador por Aluno (UCA): conhecimentos e práticas docentes

Abstract

The Digital Technologies of Information and Communication (TDIC) give elements to redesign the interpersonal communication and enter the school, in the way that access to the mobile technologies and the Internet interfere in the manner how teachers and students deal with the school contents and methodologies used within the pedagogical processes. Within this perspective, this work discusses the knowledge and docent practices experienced by teachers and students of the 8th grade of the Fundamental School in a school of the state of Ceara, Brazil, participant of the Project One computer per Student (UCA) during the planning and execution of a collaborative web project. The overall objective of this research was to analyze knowledge and practices utilized by teachers of the 8th grade of the Fundamental School in a collaborative web work, within the Project One Computer per Student (UCA), Ceará. The specific objectives were: identify knowledge and docent practices on group work; promote formation on collaborative work as computational support for teachers of the Fundamental School; identify the knowledge the teachers used during the collaborative web work with support of the laptop and the internet; analyze docent practices developed in collaborative web processes related to collective production, teaching-learning and the use of technological resources. The methodological procedures of this work shown evidence for the option for the Interpretative Paradigm, to understand the knowledge and the docent practices of the Project UCA and the context they occurred. The participating research offered the necessary support for the making of the investigation, being the main instruments of data collection the interview, the participating observation, the deliberative sessions, the recording in audio and video, as well as the contributions of the teachers in the virtual collaborative Socrates ambient (Online System for the Making of Projects and Communities). The results indicate that the collaborative practices with the support of the educational laptop favor the teaching and learning make dynamic the pedagogical work and make possible the development of attitudes like collaboration, solidarity, coauthor, coresponsibility and sense of pertaining to the group. Although, it is necessary to offer docent formation, accompaniment of the didactic-pedagogical work and technological support.