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This study investigated how teachers and students use the Facebook social networking tool and how it affects the teacher-student and the within and outside of school relationships. The article explores the contemporary society’s concepts of curriculum and it conceives curriculum as a set of knowledge that transcends the space-time of a classroom using communication devices that facilitate the construction of an interrelating knowledge curriculum. The results of this work reinforce: a) The daily life as a source of learning and knowledge construction; b) the practices instituted by practitioners that modify rules, create and reinvent ways of acting collectively and c) Facebook as educational networking tool, i.e., multifaceted learning space.||Este trabalho investigou os usos que professores e alunos fazem do software social Facebook e como este vem afetando a relação professor aluno, dentro fora da escola. O estudo busca analisar as concepções de currículo na sociedade contemporânea, entendendo o currículo como uma tessitura de saberes que transcende o espaço tempo de uma sala de aula via usos de dispositivos comunicacionais que são potencializadores de uma construção curricular que articula saberes em rede. Como resultados deste trabalho, temos: a) A vida cotidiana como fonte de aprendizagem e construção de conhecimento; b) As práticas instituídas pelos usos dos praticantes que modificam regras, criam e reinventam maneiras de estar coletivamente e; c) O Facebook como rede educativa, ou seja, como espaço multirreferencial de aprendizagem.Palavras-chave: Cibercultura. Currículo. Facebook. Redes sociais.AbstractThis study investigated how teachers and students use the Facebook social networking tool and how it affects the teacher-student and the within and outside of school relation ships. The article explores the contemporary society’sconcepts of curriculum and it conceives curriculum as a set of knowledge that transcends the space-time of a classroom using communication devicesthat facilitate the construction of an interrelating knowledge curriculum.The results of this work reinforce: a) The daily life as a source of learningand knowledge construction; b) the practices instituted by practitioners that modify rules, create and reinvent ways of acting collectively and c) Facebook as educational networking tool, i.e., multifaceted learning space.Keywords: Cyberculture. Curriculum. Facebook. Social networks.
