PERCEPTIONS, CONCEPTIONS AND ASSESSMENTS OF SCIENCE UNDERGRADUATES ABOUT FACEBOOK AS A VIRTUAL APPROACH ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

Nowadays, some experiences that have demonstrated how Facebook can be used as a virtual environment has started to be a part of the educational medium. In general, they report that this social network can support the pedagogical processes of teaching and learning, authorship network, online teaching and teacher training. However, even in fact of those possibilities, it is necessary to consider epistemological principles that seek to narrow successfully the relationship between education and technologies, especially the digital ones. Based on these assumptions, the presented article related education and cyberculture as take as a link between network and apprentice. It was performed an ex-post facto study during the explanatory research of qualitative nature, in order to identify some perceptions, conceptions, and evaluations of undergraduates for the use of Facebook during teacher’s formation. The three categories identified after the capture of data from nineteen questions, elaborated in the semi-structured interview format, which dealt with the situations experienced by them as a group involved in a group formed by the social network, which emerged as a virtual reality and insofar as was being didactically systematized, as a virtual community, was synthesized by interactive and collaborative learning. In the end, it was possible to establish, among other, reflections concerned to the three identified categories, as the reason for the preference for the work type accomplished in net, the contribution of the activities accomplished virtually and the positive and negative points of the use of this network as a methodology in the science teaching.