Letramentos digitais críticos : habilidades mobilizadas por estudantes universitários em ambiente virtual de aprendizagem

Abstract

In this research we present the Digital Literacy skills with an emphasis on a critical perspective, presenting, from the intersection of the different dimensions of Digital Literature, the place of criticism and the understanding of the mobilization of their abilities in educational context. Thus, as a research problem: What is the place of criticism in the mobilization of digital literacy skills by students in events and microevents developed in the Virtual Learning Environment (AVA) in higher education disciplines at the Federal University of Mato Grosso? Facing this question, the main objective of the research was to understand the different literatures mobilized by students in the practices and events of digital literacy and what their contribution to delineate a critical perspective of digital literacy. It consists of a qualitative research, as a method we have inspired in Virtual Ethnography (Hine, 2004), developing an ethnographic research, considering that the subjects are cultural practitioners and in the AVA we have the formation of virtual communities in which the practices are materialized and recorded from the participation and interactions of the students in diverse resources, among them the forums, in which we realized the observation in this research. For the production of the data were used as procedures: bibliographical survey, systematic literature review, document analysis, observation of the interactions carried out in the activities carried out in the forums and online questionnaire. The context of the research was the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), Campus of Cuiabá, in which we counted on the participation of students of the courses of Licenciatura in Pedagogy, distance modality, Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, semipresencial and Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, face-to-face modality, that carried out training activities with the AVA. The research data allowed us to delineate the skills of digital literacy dimensions and to identify that the place of criticism is identified at the intersection of the dimensions of digital literacy. By identifying and analyzing the meanings and meanings attributed by the students in digital literacy practices and events in the courses, in which, through the interactions in the AVA, it was observed that from these interactions there was the mobilization of the intersecting skills of the literacy dimensions and the mobilization of critics. This mobilization took place in a differentiated way in the analyzed courses, considering the type of discussion carried out within the literacy event, as well as the mediation carried out in the AVA and the topic discussed by the students.