Digital technologies in the teaching of Libras/Portuguese written in bilingual basic education

This research presents and discusses the process of creating a digital application, in the context of Basic Education. The execution of this Educational Product took place in two stages: participation in the Working Group (GT) Libras Discursive Teaching / Portuguese written in Basic Education for @ll, at the Center for Teaching and Research Applied to Education (Cepae / UFG) and the development of the EduLibras software. During the academic year of 2018, the general objective of this group was to answer the following question: What are the possibilities of using digital technologies in the teaching of Libras / Portuguese written in bilingual basic education? Among the themes and theoreticians that supported the study, the concepts of Inclusive Education stand out in Mantoan (2015); issues related to autonomy and bankin concepto f education in Paulo Freire (2018); reading and writing in Smolka (2003); literacy and language in Lodi and Lacerda (2014); Sign Language in Brito (1995) and Carvalho (2014), and the implications of digital technologies for teaching in Buckingham (2000), Moran (2003), Jenkins (2009), Fantin and Girardello (2012), among others. The results obtained enabled the identification of unique experiences, which brought relevant methodological suggestions to the Bilingual App Libras / Written Portuguese Application, which aims to offer a didactic learning alternative, which encourages autonomy and the teaching of both languages for students deaf and hearing.