Sobre interface e interação: projeto para a construção do conhecimento com o website da FACOM - UFJF

Abstract

The guideline of this work is the influence of interaction and interface in the creation of a web platform for the learning in the higher education of Social Communications in UFJF. The development of this theme has, as a background, possibilities of social, technological and creative changes of the digital era and the new communicational profile of individuals, which demand a reformulation of educational parameters. The ultimate goal is to propose a web project for Communications College in UFJF that will go beyond the institutional relationship and become a space to the construction of knowledge, continuing the process initiated in classroom between teachers and pupils. The theoretical-practical analysis of this work is structured in four stages: in examining the communicational changes, which leveraged to specific cognitive and sensitive characteristics of the digital native and demanded new perspectives on ways of teaching and learning; in understanding the construction of knowledge enabled in interaction, which highlights a systemic approach to education, by referencing the work of Jean Piaget and Humberto Maturana; in estimating the role of interface design on communicative process, according to Steven Johnson‘s and Donald Norman‘s research; and comparing empirical data and existing web projects developed for Facom over these two years of study. The pilot project of this dissertation is part of a broad proposition of educational actions and relations modification that start in the classroom, towards encouraging dialogue, the harmony between the making and the knowing and, thus, the rescue of the pleasure of learning.