Blog Argumentandos: writing beyond school

Abstract

The production of Argumentandos blog stems from the articulation of two educational projects in developing basic education school federal system, the College Pedro II: Reading and Writing Workshops Argumentative, involving students in the 9th grade of elementary school, and Arguing on Modalities Oral and Written: by a Critical Education, which involves students of the 1st year of high school. These projects intend to encourage pupils to develop the argumentative text production in oral and written as a practice that goes beyond the classroom to form genres that inhabit the everyday life. To achieve this goal, the Argumentandos blog was created as a way both to disseminate the texts written and rewritten by the students in these projects and the continuation of discussions begun at school by participating in the school community. In this paper, after literature review on the subject of textual production and Digital Technologies of Information and Communication, it is reported specifically, then, experience with Argumentandos blog. As a result, the blog showed only an example of pedagogical practice while gender discourse, which refers to a school education project training subject to social life, as it meets the digital literacy. Many of the students involved with the project in 2015 has actively participated in its construction and it came out ready to continue and expand the discussions in social networks.