Ação educativa e tecnologias digitais: Análise sobre os saberes colaborativos.

Abstract

The programs of distance learning that use digital technologies constitute pedagogical possibilities more and more frequent on the educational context. It is verified great expansion of experiences in distance learning that complement conventional systems, as well as the upcoming of hybrid forms of education that combine presence activities and distance activities, which promote the interchange e the integration of both systems. The digital media and the Web 2.0 tools, by collaborative platforms such as Moodle, possibilitate the communication, interactivity, collaboration and collective formulation of knowledge, transforming the traditional roles of teachers and students. Having this scenario as basis, the research tried to identify how the digital technologies and the pedagogical mediations based on co-authorship increases the collaborative knowledges - knowledge, abilities and attitudes related to collaboration - fundamental to life long learning. The theoretical approach tried to explore theories and researches about collaboration and collaborative learning; tried to define the concept of collaborative knowledge and to elect, among these, the five concepts most applicable to the collaborative dynamic in distance learning programs (EAD): autonomy, communication and sharing, exploration and resolution of conflicts, collaborative engagement and verification and synthesis. This study searched yet to retrieve central aspects of the use of digital technologies in EAD, such as digital media characteristics, hypertext, interactivity, interfaces and Web 2.0. The theoretical research highlighted the theoretic aspects that guide the concept of pedagogic mediation such as dialogue, symbolic and cultural elaboration and possibility of communication and critic. The investigation approached the relative communication models to the use of technologies in education, highlighting the EMEREC model and the concepts of authorship and co-authorship in the processes of distance teaching and learning. The field research was done in the discipline of Distance Education, of FACED-UFC, from august to December 2007, using the methodology of virtual ethnography. The data analysis is organized in three categories: collaborative knowledges, digital technologies and pedagogical mediations supported by authorship and co-authorship. The results indicate that the collaborative knowledges are lived and improved in context of use of digital technologies and pedagogical mediations based in authorship and co-authorship, which need to be improved. Indicate also that the Web 2.0 tools, although insufficiently explored, favors and induces collaborative practices and that pedagogical mediations based in authorship and co-authorship require great investment in docent formation. The research proposes the definition of public politics in management and financing, access to internet to different social segments and teacher formation towards critic and autonomy actions.