Our First Text questions and comments: (by Luciana Audi)

FIRST TEXT: From January 16th until 22nd: AUDI, L. C. C. ; Basso, Ana Paula ; MATEUS, E. F. . APRENDENDO COLABORATIVAMENTE POR MEIO DE FERRAMENTAS ELETRÔNICAS: UMA PRÁTICA PARA A FORMAÇÃO DE DOCENTES. Travessias (UNIOESTE. Online), v. 04, p. 350-365, 2010.

1) Broadly speaking, in this text the authors describe a Project they have been developing at Londrina State University with a Public School, which is very similar to our PIBID Project. Also they claim one of their aims is to promote the meeting of "The world of life to the world of theory" that means, to approximate the University to Elementary Public Schools. What I guess is also our objective, isn't it? So, I look forward to hearing from you all, what do you understand by this meating and also what do you believe being necessary to reach this?

2) In order to reach their objectives they act in three ways:
1) Exchanging the roles; 2) Letting themselves be transformed by each-other and with another person; 3) Working collaboratively, that means "creating work with each-other", producing locally meaningful knowledge. I would like you to discuss how do you understand these 3 points.

3) Finally, I would like to highlight some more specifics parts of the text, such as those where the authors claim that the TSCH (THEORY SOCIAL-CULTURAL-HISTORICAL) begun by Vygotsky points that "learning occurs through the social practice between individuals" and nowadays it is developed by lots of researchers, such as Lave, 1996, Matusov & Hayes, and others, who state that "Teacher Education is a collaborative procces". In my oppinion, in their community of practice, their blog revealed how their identities were so changed and also re-created, only because of their work based on this theoretical background.
I do believe that, because my identity has been re-created too, not only every single time I go to School and teach with our pairs, but also in each discussion we have at the University on Monday mornings. I mean, I am always learning. In fact it is a dialetical process of learning!

Hugs,

l.