O Facebook como ambiente de aprendizagem : uma análise da praxis presencial mediada pelo conectivismo pedagógico

This paper discusses the need to be teaching practice linked to the universe of Digital Technologies of Information and Communication, based on the social networking use of perspective in education and expanding the times and formal learning settings, It is understood social networks as favorable spaces the sharing of information and knowledge and therefore profitable to develop pedagogical practices that need to be disseminated in order to encourage greater use in the school environment. The research aims to analyze the use of social networking as an enriching learning environment of the classroom teaching practice, from an experience developed by the researcher in the optional Portuguese Instrumental discipline, offered by the Department of Arts of the Federal University of Sergipe, which we used the Facebook social networking platform for this purpose. To achieve this goal, established themselves as specific research objectives: discuss the relationship between the use of Digital Technologies of Information and Communication on the relationship between school, work and society in the twenty-first century; present the theoretical basis for the networked learning and communication; present the possibilities of using existing resources on Facebook as a learning environment and evaluate the proposed use of Facebook in support of teaching practice under the student perspective. The subjects are the seventeen students of the discipline, from different areas of graduation, because discipline is optional character for most courses. The research, qualitative approach was performed using the method of the Research Training, using as research tools participant observation in the classroom and in the group created for the discipline on Facebook, a questionnaire with open and closed questions, applied to the end the course and in order to evaluate the proposal from the perspective of future teachers, there was a semi-structured interview only intended for undergraduates students in the class. The collected data were ...