Digital Literacy in the Formation of Literature Teachers Graduated from Distance Education
Digital Information and Communication Technology. Digital Literacy. Teacher training. Distance Education.
With the advancement of Science and Digital Technologies of Information and Communication (henceforth TDIC) and the growth of access to virtual networks, teachers are faced with the demands of Distance Education (EaD) and Digital Literacy, which are configured as new challenges in the teaching and learning. That said, the offer and access to distance education in universities has grown considerably in recent years. An example of this is the quantitative increase in student enrollment in courses offered in the distance modality, due to the transformations inherent to digital culture. In this scenario, Digital Literacy emerges as a new concept of learning and understanding the new virtual learning environments (VLE), which are now increasingly using computers, the internet, digital texts and various ways of interacting through user interfaces. networks. At this juncture, the objective of the research is to analyze the digital literacy practices promoted in the course of training teachers, graduates of the Literature course, offered in the distance learning modality of the Open University of Brazil (UAB), located in Juara, in the northwest region of the state of Mato Grosso, belonging to the Brazilian Legal Amazon space. Thus, this study is affiliated with the principles of the qualitative research method, characterized by an interest in understanding the process and practices of digital literacy in the training of teachers in the area of Letters. Therefore, it covers a set of techniques and procedures such as bibliographic research and interviews. In this sense, it followed the comprehensive-descriptive axis, which has a natural environment as a direct source of data, constituting the interpretation of the results expressed in fragments of interviews, among others. The partial results of the research indicate that the training path privileged practices of digital literacy in different training situations, since it met the needs for the moment of training, but in analysis of the current context of education in the country, the data demonstrate that it would be necessary more emphasis on actions that would enable a better understanding of Digital Literacy given the current demands of contemporary society.