Diversidade cultural e mídias digitais na educação: uma experiência de encontro intercultural em um contexto escolar de Fortaleza

Abstract

With the advent of technology and the possibility of contact between individuals of different cultures, through various tools available today, the encounter between different cultures, confined to the school environment, you can add the access to digital environments, such as websites, videos, games and blogs. So we can be in contact, directly or indirectly, with different ways of living and thinking from our own. In this sense, we conducted a survey around the project Nossos Lugares no Mundo, UFC Virtual Institute, which occurred in the first half of 2011, which consisted of education activities, presencial and virtual, involving people from different cultures and places. Students of two classes of 5th grade of elementary school participated in the project, one in the capital and another city in the state of Ceará. These students conducted in-person educational activities, with the help of various tools, which problematized the theme of difference, especially national, involving the presence of two American students, which were participating in an exchange project of UFC, and then all interacted on these activities through a blog. In our research, we investigated only the class of the capital, for monitoring these students was made more closely. From the analysis of the observations made in-person meetings, of the activities and interviews with some students, we realized that the concepts of culture and cultural diversity of the participating students have changed, becoming closer to interculturalism as insight into the difference. We understand, from this analysis, which activities suit digital tools to work objectives on cultural diversity enable the development of learning that would hardly be possible without these tools, in case the project blogs.