Práticas educativas digitais: uma história, uma perspectiva

Abstract

This essay broaches the emerging problem of the sociocultural context where the Education is found nowadays. After the Internet advent, new information and communication tools based on the digital technology have led thousands of people to exchange information on virtual network, to produce and distribute contents, developing new social practices. In this wide area of sharing information there is an enlargement in the possibilities of free expression of ideas; as well as transformation on educational practices as a whole. Articulated social pressures on the Internet point at a new dimension on the phenomenon of education guidelined on informal actions of education through the use of digital social networks. From this context, this essay broaches the following problematic: The developing digital practices in the Internet are established as a socio educative phenomenon¿ In which way can we identify them as educative practices¿ What are their divisions¿ The digital practices in the Internet, called in this study as Digital Educative Practices act as a society transformation process, carrying out strong influence in the educational system. We consider the inherence between some digital practices and the educative phenomenon in its social matrix, composed of the social pressures as a transformation process of school and non-school educational practices. For this investigation we have chosen an inductive nature search from single case study and instrumental of Professor Amanda Gurgel’s video, who held a testimony in a public hearing of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio Grande do Norte. The video was posted on the Internet via a Youtube videos repository. This video’s unfolds were analyzed, revealing the digital practices as informal actions of education, establishing an emerging educational phenomenon. The researches on the digital practices on the Internet followed the procedures indicated by the qualitative approach, in other words, the data were collected in secondaries, being the researcher the main instrument for the description of the collected data. We identified a network connection among the people, moved by communities and individuals who noticed themselves as potential instruments of conjectural transformation. The direct observation of digital practices that have developed from the above cases resulted in important considerations about the understanding of social practices as an extension of the contemporary educational phenomena, which no longer lay down in physical space only, but in virtual environments, weaved by an interconnected transit of information that each individual feeds, making it unique and decisive in the social dynamics and, at the same time, collective and influential in the global dialogue.