A VISÃO DE PROFESSORES SOBRE O USO PEDAGÓGICO DO BLOG E A MEDIAÇÃO DA APRENDIZAGEM DO ALUNO

Abstract

The present work treats of the pedagogic use of the blog considered in a vygotskyan cultural historic perspective, as a cultural and technological instrument of mediation. Being considered to growing presence of information and communication technologies, as well as of virtual tools, in the society and, in matter, in the school, the research problem was: which is the teachers' vision concerning the pedagogic use of the blog in educational practice. The general objective of the research was to identify the teachers' vision on the use pedagogic of the blog. The specific objectives were: - to identify the teachers' vision about the mediations made possible by the blog with pedagogic purpose; to identify the theoretical reference adopted by the teachers in the use of the blog; to describe the teachers' vision concerning the effects of the blog in the students' learning. It was made a field research with qualitative approach and the technique of the semi-structured interview was used for obtaining of the data. The subjects in the research was six teachers, being three teachers and three go out of course of the Nucleus of Education Technology of the Municipal General office of Education of Goiânia. The results are presented in two main categories: 1) the use of the blog with pedagogic purpose: - necessary conditions and difficulties; - advantages and forms of use of the blog; - theoretical foundation and teaching methodology: the absence of the category mediation; 2) effects of the blog in the students' learning: permanence in the conventional way of to learn and to teach.