VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: LIMITS AND POSSIBILITIES FOR USE IN HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is the entire space that delivers content through technological media with synchronous and asynchronous communications between participants in the distance modalities, also called cyberspace. This article aims to recognize the VLE and its set of media as a dialogical object in the classroom, discussing training to the teacher, which is one of the major challenges for the handling of technological resources, especially with regard to the proposal of the virtual environment through Distance Education (DE) as mediation in the teaching and learning process in high school. The study refers to a descriptive bibliographic research with a qualitative approach. Educational changes require a new attitude from the educator and it is his / her competence to have digital fluency and to effectively master the new digital educational tools, acquiring an innovative pedagogical practice, stimulating learning and collaborating in the construction of critical and reflective citizens through continuous pedagogical-technological training. . It was observed that the transforming potential of different technologies, materialized in different devices and platforms, faces resistance from the subjects / authors, students and teachers. Both need to be trained in the face of new educational changes with the flexibility to learn and teach by sharing learning materials. This research aims to make the reader recognize technology as an ally of education that generates social integration, and it is up to the existing limits to be solved so that they can take advantage of the various possibilities that exist in the usability of AVA.