As mídias sociais na prática do professor

Abstract

New digital technologies change not only their users’ worldview, but also their cognitive skills, establishing new social relationships and ways of learning. This paper is about the use of social media, specifically social networks, in favor of the teaching-learning process and how the teacher uses these tools in his pedagogical practice. As a space for interaction and sharing of information and knowledge between different users, social networks are becoming increasingly significant in people’s lives and a very common practice in the technological society. Based on these statements, it was defined as a general objective to investigate the use of social networks in the more interactive and collaborative teaching-learning process. For this, questionnaires were applied with 45 students and an interview was conducted with a teacher from a high school class of a private school in Imperatriz (MA). The teaching possibilities are multiplied when using these digital tools, and with the case study it was possible to verify the presence, acceptance and potential of the use of social networks in the development of students’ skills.