Teacher education: reflections from experience in a virtual environment of collaborative learning in the post-graduation

Abstract

This work is located in the field of current reflections on the contributions that the Virtual Digital Technologies (TDVs), especially the technologies of Web 2.0, add to the process of a teacher educator. We take as an empirical field the experience of teaching in a discipline of the curriculum of a program of a Post Graduation Program in Education. Characterized as an activity mediated by a virtual environment of collaborative learning, we sought to provide virtual spaces for interaction, work and production of texts/ hypertext cooperative with the support of wiki technology. The data analyzed come from the interactive records found in this environment. It is observed that among the political discourse of the daily on the advantages and flexibility in communication, as provided by environments that are conducive to this, the effects produced are not exactly those that support the circulating discourses. Facing the simple problems, such as the ownership of the virtual environment and interaction with the writing of the other, constitute crossings that must be worked in advance in a work supported by the technology.