Teacher, may i use the facebook?: An experience integrating social media in the classroom

Abstract

Nowadays society has been suffering frequent transformations with the new digital era and, in the outlook where we find ourselves it is practically impossible to unlink the technology from our daily activities, where it is more present each day. The school being a microcosmos from this same society (BOURDIEU, 2011), which all transformation that happens reflecting equally on education. This way, the social medias used in a massive way as a source of communication and entertainment out of the school for students and teachers, become an immediate pedagogical access resource, within school contexts. Such groups or specifics spaces on the internet that allow shared data and information, from general or specific characters, from several formats (text, file, image, photo, video) (LIMA, 2011), therefore start being used as teaching resources in the classroom. Likewise, this article discusses experiences through a report about media integration in Spanish language class to a group from the 1st year in High School at the Colégio de Aplicação da UFSC, using the social media facebook as a pedagogic tool. This experience was developed at the supervised internship, the social media served as a communication channel for presentation and information sharing about the activities proposed in foreign language class, following the projects methodology.