Podcast: potencialidades de um gênero digital em contextos escolares

Abstract

The understanding of technologies in the face of the teaching and learning process has been improved over the decades and presents itself as a potential theme to be explored and understood. In this context, the digital podcast genre unleashes a series of concepts directly applicable in the school environment. Among the different existing digital technologies, there is the podcast, which has been popularizing and gaining relative space in the educational environment, as shown by the National Common Curricular Base (BRASIL, 2018), in order to cover not only the function of its pedagogical potential under their educational practices, but also through pedagogical perspectives that result in the reflective form of learning concepts. In pandemic times that the world is going through in 2020, the podcast becomes an important resource in the face of problematizing the absence of face-to-face classes. This resource provides students with a way to understand pedagogical content, dynamically, with easy access and equivalent understanding as to its use, after all, this digital genre provides expansion and propagation of what could only be seen in a classroom before. The methodological dimensions of this research are characterized as descriptive, with an interpretive basis, of bibliographic nature. As for the approach, it is a qualitative research, defined by Brasileiro (2013), which proposes to interpret the phenomena and bring to light meanings resulting from the research. Thus, this work aims to analyze the potential of the podcast as a digital genre, facing the needs of students in school and extra-school situations, in a way that emphasizes the role of pedagogical action in the face of the language to be positioned and argued and the beneficial use technologies, só that education and the search for knowledge are made available to students and, thus, there is an overcoming of teachers in teaching and students in learning.