Digital Literacy: Collaborative Forum on the Distance Education

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Raíssa Araújo
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Leandro de Paiva, Maria Cristina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: EAD em Foco
• Texto Completo: https://eademfoco.cecierj.edu.br/index.php/Revista/article/view/1133

We experienced several changes in social, economic, cultural and educational relationships, coming from the use of Digital Information and Communication Technologies. Given this scenario, there is no way to avoid dealing with the subject, nor to avoid the paradigmatic changes caused by educational technologies, especially in distance education, given that this modality develops from and with Information and Communication Technologies. In this scenario, the research Digital Literacy in Distance Education emerged, which was developed in the Pedagogy course, from a university in northeastern Brazil. As a part of the study, this article intends to present the practices of Digital Literacy developed in a collaborative forum, in the component Profession Teacher, offered by the referred course. The investigation had a qualitative character with nuances of an ethnographic case study. For data collection, an immersion in the virtual learning environment - Moodle Mandacaru was carried out. The records made on the platform were used as a source, either in the participation of the forums or in the exchange of messages through the tools of interaction among the participants. It was possible to verify the presence of basic skills for digital literacy, such as research on the internet, critical assessment of content, hypertextual reading and construction of knowledge on the internet, in addition to encouraging interaction, collaboration, interactivity and autonomy, from the perspective of collaborative work. It was also found that digital literacy happens, mainly, when using innovative methodologies with the use of technologies.   Keywords: Distance education. Collaborative forum. Digital information and communication technology. Digital literacy.