Ciberespaço, cibercultura e a utilização da Web 2.0 na aprendizagem colaborativa através da ferramenta Google Docs

Abstract

With the increasing development of communication technology, there are countless resources available today to build an environment for collaborative learning. And in construction process, we can avail ourselves of the opportunities offered by Web 2.0, where the keyword is interaction. Every day appears, in the virtual world, through the advent of the Internet, tools with enormous potential, especially in terms of interaction and social construction of knowledge. The tool Google Docs specifically allows interaction and exchange of ideas, exchange information possible, being authors, to interfere and contribute to the construction of a reality / knowledge that makes us subjects of our own existence. The biggest advantage in using this tool is that it is free and allows the knowledge produced and worked in this course is open to the whole community involved in the tool. Through this research we analyze the various features of Google Docs in the teaching-learning as enabler of collaborative actions in the virtual world of interactivity, for a sample of students in higher education in the context of formal teaching and learning. On the use of Google docs are as perceptions of students identified from the responses to a questionnaire constructed for this purpose. The perceptions of students stands out considering the fact that Google docs help improving the performance results of matter related to the course, working as a learning strategy and as a support resource, always available anytime and anywhere where the student has Internet access