O uso de tecnologias digitais na produção de gêneros textuais jornalísticos por estudantes

Abstract

The starting point of this research master's thesis emerged from the daily observation of the researcher teacher and the lack of interest of students from high school by reading and production of texts. From there, it was thought to propose a contribution to address this problem in school education. So, it decided to join the current and challenging idea of developing an educational project that allied digital technology - in general as well approved by adolescents and youth of today - the pedagogical work of understanding and production of journalistic genres, significant for social participation criticism. So this academic-scientific study deals with guidelines that teachers and students need to know to create a digital school newspaper and aims to achieve two objectives: develop and implement a set of theoretical guidelines and practices for the creation of a digital school newspaper in order to awakening in high school students interest in reading activities and text production, with the promotion of an interactive and collaborative learning environment; analyze the results of implementation of the proposed courseware. The theoretical framework consists of assumptions of Educommunication and Theory of Text Genre. In terms of methodology, the research is characterized as a field, literature, descriptive, experimental and analytical. The educational product was applied in five meetings of two classes each, along with a group of 2nd year of high school, a public school in the city of Londrina, Paraná, in 2015. The results in the application were well satisfactory: students developed journalistic genres of good quality, created the digital school newspaper Jornal Barão and participated actively and project enthusiasm. This demonstrates the validity of the functional use of information technologies in education as a good alternative for interactive and collaborative learning and knowledge for the (re) construction of school social subjects.