Digital language and content production

Creating spaces for authorial writings in high school

Abstract

It is a fact that the power of New Information and Communication Technologies (NTICs) contributes greatly to increased interaction between young people and people in general. The digital language used as a form of communication, for most users, is just signs and symbols or even words that reproduce content that is already available on the Internet. Through research conducted at the Professor Plínio Ribeiro State School in Montes Claros-MG, we found that many students spend most of their time connected to the internet on games or social networks. Most of the time they use these technological resources indiscriminately exploit the virtual environment without reflecting on the content to which they are exposed. From the results of this research we believe it is necessary to adopt a teaching methodology and develop an action plan to be implemented in the classroom, in an attempt to improve our pedagogical practice. With this we developed an Educational Intervention Project (PEI) with the objective of promoting and encouraging the authorial writing by the students in philosophy classes. This is the creation of a Magazine of Philosophy - New Ideas for High School, which aims to publish and share content produced by the high school students of our school. In this sense, by using new technologies as tools in the education system, we are making use of an instrument that has great potential and that can contribute to the formation of these young people, also developing their creativity and their perception of reality. Finally, it is a way of reinterpreting, re-meaning and better appropriating these new features.