“O cofre dos libros”unha proposta de ensino-aprendizaxe de Literatura Infantil e Xuvenil a través de Twitter

Resumen

This article aims to present a proposal as part of an elective course: Literature for children and young adults and its didactics, in third year of the Primary Teachers’ Training Degree at the University of A Coruña, being its unquestionable ingredients, both the Moodle of the course and the social network Twitter. This teaching and learning dynamics, called “The Treasure Chest of Books”, has been implemented during the last two academic years, and its main goal is the preparation of a proposal for reading encouragement in groups. Based on books for children and teenagers, it is an indispensable requirement for its development the use of Twitter from the beginning to the end of the process. Each group of students creates a Twitter account using a name inspired by the author or text chosen by them, and then, they have to use the hashtag “#lixdudc” (Literatura Infantil e Xuvenil e a súa Didáctica Universidade da Coruña) whenever they publish a tweet. The creation of the Twitter account also allows the teacher of the course to advise her students on the professional usage of this social network. Besides, by working all together, a jointly teaching and learning process will be carried out, creating thus a sharing information environment in the classroom. Finally, the results obtained until now are presented, as well as some proposals for the future.