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- The use of facebook in the teaching / learning process and its influence on engagement and academic performancePublication . Pereira, Vladi; Oliveira, EmaOne of the realities currently facing world-wide is the increasing use that students make of digital social networks in mobile devices, especially the social network Facebook. The potentialities that social networks present, such as sharing information involving topics addressed in the classroom, group study, the dissemination of the most diverse informative contents, the sharing of resources and social networks can allow the development of capacities and more dynamic and interactive teaching / learning strategies. Thus, it is thought that it is possible to better explore this space to promote student engagement and consequently improve academic performance. In recent years, several authors have presented approaches related to the use of the social network Facebook in school context, however, the results of the studies are still controversial. In the present work will be presented the state of the art on the use of Facebook in school in supporting the process of teaching/learning. The main idea is to present the most important thing to date on the subject, to analyze the methodological procedures used by other researchers and to identify the possible contradictory results. This will be divided in four sections: In the first section there will be an introduction on the subject under study. In the second one there will be a discretion of the methodology used for the selection of the works used. The third section deals with the main ideas of the authors consulted as well as the problems left open in the articles analyzed. In the fourth section will be presented the conclusions and bibliographical references.
- The use of Facebook in the teaching-learning process and its influence on academic performancePublication . Pereira, Vladi; Oliveira, EmaThe growing use that students make of digital social networks on mobile devices in the world, opens up a vast possibility of their use in the school context. The Facebook, due to its characteristics, has been used as a platform to support the teaching and learning process in several regions of the world, however, its impact on academic performance is not consensual. It is believed that the use of Facebook in a context of insufficient academic management platforms, may be a useful tool for increasing students' academic performance. Thus, this study aims to analyze the impact of using Facebook on academic performance in the discipline of Geography. The research had a quasi-experimental design, in which 55 undergraduate students in Teaching of Geography from the Higher Institute of Educational Sciences of Huíla - ISCED (Angola) participated, divided into an experimental group (n = 32) and a control group (n = 23). The results revealed that the average in the final grade in the discipline was significantly higher in the experimental group, as well as the average obtained in the classification in a knowledge assessment test. Based on this, it is concluded that the use of Facebook tools to support the teaching and learning process had a significant positive effect on students' academic performance, with this effect having increased over time.