O uso do celular como ferramenta de apoio em atividades de oficina de produção textual em uma escola estadual de ensino médio de Santiago - RS

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to verify the use of the cell phone as a support and research tool for the writing of an essay, with participants from a Textual Production Workshop of a High School. The workshop, in extra-class hours, proposes activities to complement practice in reading and writing. The choice of theme is justified by the intrusion of technologies in daily life, which already requires a new attitude on the part of the educators on how to manage them, as they reach the classrooms brought by the students, through their cell phones. Given this daily situation, the study seeks to contribute to the idea that this technology, often rejected by the school itself, for dispersing students, can be used as a source of research and learning in the classroom and / or extraclass activities. The application was made from a base text made available to all participants, being requested that part of the students to carry out the production only with reference to such text and that another party would look for extra information, researching on their cell phones on the subject. At the end, a comparative analysis of the textual productions of the two groups was made in relation to the texts produced. It can be verified, through some indicators, that the students who consulted extra information elaborated textual productions richer in information and of superior quality to those who did not perform the extra research, validating the use of the cellular as a research tool in the textual creative elaboration.