O processo de construção de blogs por alunos do ensino fundamental

Abstract

Abstract

The research goals to analyze how the 7th year students of a private education institution use digital media to construct a Blog. Research shows that students of this age group have difficulties in developing Blogs due to a lack of digital literacy that allows them to manipulate information and media using this type of resource. Classified as qualitative exploratory research, it used as a unit of analysis 23 students, subdivided into 7 groups at the time of developing the Blogs. It was subdivided into three stages: planning, data collection, and analysis. In the first, the instruments were prepared, and the equipment was prepared for the subsequent steps. In the second, the collection was carried out considering the capture of the students' previous knowledge through the application of a survey questionnaire and the observation reports constructed from the production of Blogs by the students. In the third, the data analysis occurred in an interpretative way using the procedures proposed by the Discursive Textual Analysis in five phases: unitarization, categorization, description, interpretation, and argumentation. It was identified that students used the concept of social networks as a basis for the construction of Blogs. They presented difficulties in operating their interface and understanding its dynamics, in addition to understanding metaphors such as the concept of a digital address. It is intended to continue the investigation expanding the scope of students of this age group in contexts of creation and development of Blogs.

Keywords: Educational technology. Technology and didactic. Teaching by computer. Learning. Fundamental teaching.