Proposal for working with blogs in 5th grade of elementary school

Abstract

This text presents a research carried out through collaborative work, which took place in a peripheral school in the city of Uberlândia-MG. The research is characterized as a case study and has a qualitative approach. Regarding the methodology, in this investiga- tion, we analyzed the work, with the support of blogs, whose pages were used for student records and debates directed to the geometry content. The objective of this research was to analyze if it is possible to promote digital literacy and mathematical knowledge using the Blog tool. We analyzed the work, with the support of blogs, whose pages were used for stu- dent records and debates directed to the geometry content. Students who were attending the 5th (fifth) grade of elementary school were invited to participate in this project. The project was developed with 30 students in the second semester of 2014, and another 30 in the first semester of 2015. In the data production process at school, the following instruments were used: field notes produced by the entire project team , photographs and footage of the acti- vities produced in the computer lab and in the classroom (recorded by the research team), questionnaires, interviews, records in virtual space: blogs. The results of this investigation focused on the analysis of fifth graders’ productions with blog entries. Regarding the con- clusion, the research showed that blogs, software and different dynamics of study attracted the students’ attention, leaving most of them, instigated by the unknown. Blogging work in groups has developed students’ reading and writing of both mother tongue and mathe- matical symbol and nomenclature. Students ’interaction became noticeable throughout the project as it provided students’ personal maturity, respect, tolerance and cooperation. In this sense, we conclude that the project has greatly contributed to the process of student literacy in mother tongue, mathematics and digital literacy.