Teoria da atividade e mediação tecnológica livre na escolarização a distância

Abstract

With the appearance of the Internet, the Teaching-Leaming Virtual Locations of (A VEA, in Portuguese) come as a resource that can make possible the fonnation processes, representing more opportunities for the education. These A VEA allow that it be accomplished a didactic-methodological work integrating several tools that can strengthen teachers and students' fonnation, through a dialogic and questioning practice. The main objective of the present research was to investigate the construction of the educational practice mediated by the technological communication resources which has the Theory of the Activity as a viable-possible psychological orientation to develop and to implement the study activities on A VEA. This work presents an ethnography accomplished in the attendance of trainings mediated by AMEM and e-ProInfo. The analysis elements for practices mediated by technologies used in that research were built taking into account: the ftee mediated communication, the orientation of the practices and the dialog applied to problem-searching in the study activities. Considering the formative need in mediated practices, we observed that the planning and implementation of study activities fortify and guide the practice mediated by technologies. Therefore, the didactic-methodological structure around situation-problem should be considered so that the telematic dialogue happens among all involved individuaIs in the teaching-Ieaming processo We indicated ftom this theoretical background the mediators ofthe leaming to be considered in the implementation of courses mediated by A VEA with the intention of developing the public and of quality education at the directing distance. Keywords: Theory of the Activity, Free Technological Mediation, Teaching-Leaming Virtual Location and Distance Education