Do aprender ao ensinar: significados construídos pelo futuro docente no aprendizado com e sobre as tecnologias digitais

Abstract

This thesis is focused on understanding the meanings constructed by future teachers learning with and about digital technologies within the discipline of Information Technology and Communications (ITEC) of the Faculty of Education FACED / UFJF. The search, conducted within the research group Language, Interaction and Knowledge (LIC) in the Faculty of Education UFJF, was founded in historical and cultural studies of the constitution of the human being. It is understood that the students of Pedagogy adults are in the process of learning and development that have specific and particular requirements and learn about digital technologies. It lies in the work of Vygotsky that the wire for guiding the discussion of adult learning and appropriation of digital culture by the subjects investigated. Also Bakhtin and Paulo Freire were important partners in the development of this work. The aim is to highlight some concepts relevant to this study: ownership, sense and meaning, digital culture, collaboration, zone of proximal development and active understanding. The teaching-learning process of the students in the discipline ITEC was accompanied in the first semester of 2010, from observation in collaborative classes taught in Infocentro and learning environment Moodle together with other methodological tools: questionnaire; Daily Online learning environment Moodle on two activities, students' written productions (messages in the discussion forums online texts and groups, projects and final evaluation); interview and dialogue with the teacher. To understand the statements of the subjects, was built facing a look evidentiary clues and evidence in order to establish relations between the singular facts and historical context broader cultural. The signs were constructed: evidence of significance and meanings of digital culture in the course of Pedagogy; evidence of ownership, collaboration and tension in and learn about digital technologies for the adult student; evidence of the relationship of learning to teach. Research has shown that discipline ITEC contributed to future teachers build meanings and other senses to learn and teach with digital technology. The study showed also that digital technologies by themselves do not account for the teaching-learning process and that the "other" is irreplaceable in the relations of teaching and learning. Accordingly, circumscribes the importance of mediation of the teacher in the discipline, had a dual role: mediating knowledge and teaching with and about digital technologies in education.