Creating Blogs to Learn: Case of Brazilian Elementary Education School

Abstract

This research aims to analyze how students of the seventh grade of elementary education inBrazil studying at a private school utilize digital media to create a Blog. Research reveals that students in this age group, between eleven and thirteen, have difficulties developing Blogs due to a lack of digital literacy that allows them to manipulate information and media using this type of resource. This qualitative exploratory research uses as a unit of analysis 23 students, subdivided into seven groups for the development of the Blogs. Data collection was performed to raise students' prior knowledgeby applying a survey questionnaire and observation reports generated