TECNOLOGIA: A REDE À FLOR DA TELA

Este texto versa sobre a necessidade da presença da tecnologia no cotidiano escolar, a partir de uma reflexão do modo como a tecnologia e, por extensão o hipertexto, a cibercultura, de um modo geral, vem se pondo em nossa sociedade. Refletimos ainda e de forma mais profunda, a nova configuração do espaço do saber, que com o emprego da tecnologia de comunicação digital, ganha espaço e se presentifica na vida dos educandos de modo mais efetivo e veloz do que no mundo da escola. Trazemos alguns conceitos sobre ciberespaço, cibercultura, virtual, real e atual, hipertexto, hipermídia e internet, sempre embasados em autores que se preocuparam e se ocupam com o tema do saber e do conhecimento no contexto atual, mediado pela tecnologia. Partimos de um pequeno apanhado histórico que nos contextualiza em termos de como o homem sempre foi capaz de, em todos os tempos, criar técnicas que minorassem as dificuldades de sobrevivência e o seu enfrentamento com os fenômenos da natureza que lhe eram superiores e quase que indomáveis. O texto objetiva uma reflexão de como a tecnologia está sendo aceita e implantada nas escolas e, principalmente quer levar os educadores a refletirem sobre o tema levando-se em conta a defasagem que se configura cada dia com mais distanciamento entre os educandos que chegam à escola dominando a tecnologia e os professores que fogem dela ou não se ocupam do tema com a devida urgencia que o contexto demanda. Traz colocações de impotantes autores que se ocuparam do tema da tecnologia como mais um dos actatantes do processo educativo.

CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION

This paper is a synthesis of the ideas discussed in the theme titled Culture, Technology and Education. The issues addressed in this discussion were: Scenarios of education in Brazil and E-Learning, Culture and Digital Communication, practical and systematic educational activities in Virtual Environment for Teaching and Learning and the training of educators to interact in contexts of employment with learning digital technology and the cultural movement that frames our conceptions of teaching and learning in Brazilian society.

TWITTER IN SCHOOL: REFLECTIONS ON DIGITAL LITERACY

The present study seeks to weave together reflections on the role of the school in the development of activities of digital literacy. We consider, principally, the relation to the relevance of the critical use of social networks, and we chose, in this article, an analysis of Twitter. Twitter is a mixture of social networking and microblogging and, apparently, is made up of bits of several genres like news story, leaflet, advertising, citation, which were modified to suit the needs of communication found in social networking. The research is justified owing to the importance of relating an ascendant genre with the concept of multi-modality and with school practice. The objective of the study is to verify how the school can utilize twitter in activities of developing digital literacy. Dionysius (2011), Bazerman (2007), Street (2014), Soares (2004) and Buzato (2009) are the principal theoretical referents of this study. First, we define literacy and digital literacy so that, secondly, by means of an analysis of tweets collected on February 22, 2014, we can verify what literacies are used in twitter. We verified that this genre offers several possibilities for the development of literacies and teaching of genres integrated to new social demands. The school has a social responsibility with the citizens it is forming and, therefore, it should deliver to everyone tools to act and interact in the real world and therefore critical work with digital literacy is essential.  KEYWORDS: Digital literacy. Teaching. Twitter.

Digital Literacy: an analysis of social practices in cyberspace from the accessibility and frequency of use

This paper discusses the Digital Literacy and the importance of social practices of reading and writing nowadays. The research aims to analyze the accessibility of Digital Literacy of the residents from the satellite cities in Distrito Federal and the frequency of use of cyberspace to conduct reading and writing activities. According to Levy (1999), the transmutation of various means of communication (telephone, printed newspapers and post office, for example, in chat, digital newspapers and email, respectively) enabled the synchronous communication, interactivity and sharing of information between people from different places in the world, whether in oral form - as in video conferencing and telepresencial classroom - either in writing - as in most digital genres. It is this latter method - the writing, and hence the reading on the Internet - which has guided our discussion. According to Soares (2002), we live in a era of changes in the practices of reading and writing due to new forms of interaction between reader, author and text provided by the communication in the global computer network. Nothing better, therefore, than investigating how the user handles literacy in this new environment. The Digital Literacy, according to Xavier (2005), requires new ways of reading and writing. This means that time-honored practices of literacy, for example, should be rethought and reformulated in order to insert new ways of understanding the learning process - from handling the text to your perception, through the reading of written texts, engravings and icons linked to the electronic sphere. In this sense, the Digital Literacy, associated with multimodal genres, is present in the daily lives of several people from different social classes - particularly in large urban centers. So, facing this situation, we investigate if the residents of the satellite cities of DF have easy access to digital literacy and how often they make use of texts in cyberspace.