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.

THE DAILY EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING OF READING IN THE LIBRARY E. E. TANCREDO NEVES: AN EXPERIMENT IN COMMUNITY SCHOOL DOURADOS - MS

This article is the work part of the research "Representations of literary readings built from the history and memory in the libraries of the school community in Golden-MS." We analyzed the documentation of reading projects that fostered the creation and activities of the library, as the practices of teaching reading in the daily interface with the formation of the readers in their respective school sponsor. The projects were analyzed training reading "Project Reading Elementary Education 1-5 º Ano" and "Teaching the World to Read", developed by the school library EE Tancredo Neve of state schools of Golden-MS. We conducted research also stocks the conditions of libraries and reading modes they oportunizaram through access to the literary estate and from the social practices of reading encouragement fostered between the library and classrooms. A literary collection needs to be added to the mediation practices reading the contribution of an effective training readers in school communities through the presence and role of the school library.

Dialogical-reflective meetings on reading practices and literacy (s) in a public school: report of research

This article is part of a research that investigated the practices of reading and literacy of students from a public school in Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso, and promote reflective meetings with teachers to know their views and practices regarding the teaching and learning of reading, searching contribute to the critical reflection on these practices. Thus, the proposed work was guided by reading theories and critical literacy, combined with the Bakhtin’s language theory and Vygotsky’s learning theory and human development. The data revealed that students participate in a variety of literacy practices  out of school contexts, however the context of school literacy uncovers centralization of activities in traditional tasks in school, especially copy of texts and activities of the blackboard. In the first meetings with the teachers, their perceptions about these practices were marked by uncertainty, not understanding what to do with some school problems. As the meetings were going on, the discourses could reveal critical reflection moments.