Juegos digitales y alfabetización digital: Entrevistas con profesores de primaria que utilizan juegos en la práctica Educativa

A diferencia de otros medios como la televisión o el cine, los juegos digitales se presentan como un medio único y diferente que proporcionan una nueva forma de retórica persuasiva. En este trabajo, se presentan los casos de 2 profesoras de primaria que utilizan juegos digitales en la práctica educativa. Los casos se encuentran dentro de un marco de multimodalidad que muestran la posición del docente en la educación. Se exploran los desafíos que enfrentan los docentes como instructores y la aplicación de juegos digitales en el aula moderna. Desde una perspectiva etnográfica, se han utilizado técnicas de recogida de información, como el análisis documental y la entrevista para obtener datos sobre cada uno de los casos. Los resultados obtenidos forman parte de un trabajo más amplio, pero aquí solo se muestran 2 casos, que plantean cuestiones como cuál es la posición de los profesores con respecto al uso de juegos digitales en las aulas, qué impulsa a los profesores a utilizarlos y qué tipo de apoyo o recursos necesitan los profesores. Las conclusiones de este trabajo nos llevan a entender el porque de su uso en las aulas, permiten a los estudiantes aprender y estar motivados, ante el uso de juegos en l apráctica educative, los estudiantes se encuentran con experiencias que estimulan y les provocan una conexión personal.

Aprendizagem baseada em Jogos Digitais Entrevistas com professores que utilizam jogos digitais em suas práticas educativas

In contrast to other media like TV or cinema, digital games are unique and different because they offer a persuasive rhetoric. This investigation introduces the cases of two primary school teachers who use digital games as one of their teaching methods. Both cases are multimodal and show the teacher’s position in education. This work also explores the challenges faced by teachers as instructors, and the application of digital games in modern classes.From an ethnographic view, gathering information techniques are used, such as documentary analysis and interviews in order to collect data about each case with two teachers from the province of Barcelona. The obtained results raise important questions: what is the main role of a teacher using digital games in class, how teachers participate in learning based on digital games and how digital games are developed and combined with other teaching methodologies. The conclusions obtained by this research let us understand the reason why using digital games in class allows the students to learn and keep their motivation: digital games stimulate them so they can establish a personal connection.

Correcció postural esportiva utilitzant un sensor Kinect

Aquest projecte s’emmarca dins de l’àmbit de la visió per computador, concretament en la utilització de dades de profunditat obtingudes a través d’un emissor i sensor de llum infraroja.El propòsit principal d’aquest projecte és mostrar com adaptar aquestes tecnologies, a l’abast de qualsevol particular, de forma que un usuari durant la pràctica d’una activitat esportiva concreta, rebi informació visual continua dels moviments i gestos incorrectes que està realitzant, en base a uns paràmetres prèviament establerts.L’objectiu d’aquest projecte consisteix en fer una lectura constant en temps real d’una persona practicant una selecció de diverses activitats esportives estàtiques utilitzant un sensor Kinect. A través de les dades obtingudes pel sensor Kinect i utilitzant les llibreries de “skeleton traking” proporcionades per Microsoft s’haurà d’interpretar les dades posturals obtingudes per cada tipus d’esport i indicar visualment i d’una manera intuïtiva els errors que està cometent en temps real, de manera que es vegi clarament a quina part del seu cos realitza un moviment incorrecte per tal de poder corregir-lo ràpidament. El entorn de desenvolupament que s’utilitza per desenvolupar aquesta aplicació es Microsoft Viusal Studio 2010.El llenguatge amb el qual es treballarà sobre Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 és C#

Módulo para gestionar el modelo de usuario y permisos, el sistema de archivos y el de noticias en la plataforma CoSpace

CoSpace és una plataforma web dissenyada per proporcionar un espai virtual d’interacció i col•laboració entre formadors en comunitats virtuals. Es va originar com a resultat de les necessitats addicionals que van sorgir quan els professors que treballen en temes educatius en context de diversitat (en àrees de llenguatge, matemàtiques i ciències) van necessitar una eina per afavorir o recolzar la interacció i la col•laboració entre ells per compartir idees, experiències, objectes virtuals d’aprenentatge, entre d’altres, des d’una perspectiva actual de l’ús de la tecnologia i des d’una visió més propera a l’usuari final. Aquest paradigma promou la idea que les aplicacions han de ser concebudes per a usuaris poc experts i tenint en compte els principis d’usabilitat i accessibilitat.L’abast del projecte està definit per la necessitat de gestió per part dels professors, de la informació del seu perfil personal, permetent als usuaris la creació, edició, consulta i eliminació d’aquesta informació. També la necessitat de compartir arxius, publicar notícies entre comunitats de pràctica i, finalment, de la necessitat de gestionar els permisos d’usuari per tal que gestionin mòduls de la plataforma

Disseny i implementació d’un joc de plataformes basat en la música

L’objectiu del projecte és crear un videojoc de plataformes d’scroll automàtic en 2D basat en la música. Això vol dir que tots els elements de l’escenari i els moviments que haurà de fer el jugador per a passar-se’l estaran íntegrament lligats a la banda sonora de la pantalla. A més, el joc ha de ser compatible per als dispositius Android

Aspectos afectivos en una experiencia de aprendizaje colaborativo mediada por tecnologías

Los aspectos afectivos se han revelado de una importancia fundamental en los procesos de aprendizaje. El presente estudio tiene como objetivo determinar los factores asociados a la idea por parte de los estudiantes de que se ha creado un clima de confianza y aceptación en los grupos de trabajo que deben llevar a cabo una experiencia de trabajo colaborativo mediada por ordenador (CSCL) en un contexto universitario. La metodología que se emplea se basa en un análisis estadístico correlacional, con la aplicación del estadístico exacto de Fisher, a partir de los datos obtenidos en un cuestionario final que se pasó a los estudiantes de los grupos implicados en la experiencia. El examen de las variables permite determinar algunos de los factores que se relacionan con el clima que favorece la cohesión grupal: trabajar para el resultado común, establecer un entorno comunicativo en que se comparte la información y hay una revisión mutua de las diferentes aportaciones, interesarse por dar apoyo a los otros miembros del grupo, el desarrollo social del grupo o el diseño flexible del entorno didáctico son algunos de los factores que muestran relevancia estadística. A partir de aquí, los aspectos destacados por los resultados podrían ser tenidos en cuenta en el diseño de entornos pedagógicos de características semejantes al que se describe en este estudio.

Enriching e-learning metadata through digital library usage analysis

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University teacher competences in a virtual teaching/learning environment : analysis of a teacher training experience

This paper attempts to shed light on the competencies a teacher must have inorder to teach in online university environments. We will relate a teacher trainingexperience, which was designed taking into account the methodological criteriaestablished in line with previous theoretical principles. The main objective of ouranalysis is to identify the achievements and difficulties of a specific formativeexperience, with the ultimate goal of assessing the suitability of this conceptualmethodologicalframework for the design of formative proposals aiming to contribute tothe development of teacher competencies for virtual environments.

Towards automated specifications of scenarios in enhanced learning technology

Recent standardization efforts in e-learning technology have resulted in a number of specifications, however, the automation process that is considered essential in a learning management system (LMS) is a lessexplored one. As learning technology becomes more widespread and more heterogeneous, there is a growing need to specify processes that cross the boundaries of a single LMS or learning resource repository. This article proposes to obtain a specification orientated to automation that takes on board the heterogeneity of systems and formats and provides a language for specifying complex and generic interactions. Having this goal in mind, a technique based on three steps is suggested. The semantic conformance profiles, the business process management (BPM) diagram, and its translation into the business process execution language (BPEL) seem to be suitable for achieving it.

An ontology to automated learning scenarios? an approach to its knowledge domain

Automation or semi-automation of learning scenariospecifications is one of the least exploredsubjects in the e-learning research area. There isa need for a catalogue of learning scenarios and atechnique to facilitate automated retrieval of stored specifications. This requires constructing anontology with this goal and is justified inthis paper. This ontology must mainlysupport a specification technique for learning scenarios. This ontology should also be useful in the creation and validation of new scenarios as well as in the personalization of learning scenarios or their monitoring. Thus, after justifying the need for this ontology, a first approach of a possible knowledge domain is presented. An example of a concrete learning scenario illustrates some relevant concepts supported by this ontology in order to define the scenario in such a way that it could be easy to automate.

A Game to Promote Understanding about UCD Methods and Process

The User-centered design (UCD) game is a tool forhuman-computer interaction practitioners to demonstrate the key user-centered design methodsand how they interrelate in the design process in an interactive and participatory manner. The target audiences are departments and institutions unfamiliar with UCD but whose work is related to the definition, creation, and update of a product or service.

User-Centered Design Gymkhana

The User-centered design (UCD) Gymkhana is a tool for human-computer interaction practitioners to demonstrate through a game the key user-centered design methods and how they interrelate in the design process.The target audiences are other organizational departments unfamiliar with UCD but whose work is related to the definition, cretaion, and update of a product service.

Creating a research network for a successful e-portfolio design and implementation

The presence of e-portfolios in educational centres, companies and administrations has emergedstrongly during the last years by creating very different practices coming from different objectives and purposes. This situation has led researchers and practitioners to design and implement e-portfolios with little reference to previous knowledge of them; consequently, developments are disparate with many of the processes and dimensions used both in development and use being unnecessary complex. In order to minimize the inconveniences, unify these developmental processes and improve the resultsof implementation and use of e-portfolios, it seemed necessary to create a network of researchers, teachers and trainers coming from different universities and institutions of different kinds who are interested in the investigation and the practice of e-portfolios in Spain. Therefore, The Network on e-portfoliowas created in 2006, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and led by the UniversitatOberta de Catalunya. Besides the goals associatedwith the creation of this network and which wewanted to share with other European researchers and experts of other continents, we will also present in this paper some data concerned with the first study carried out on the use of e-portfolios in our country that shows where we are and which trends are the most important for the near future.

The practical application of e-Portfolio at the Open University of Catalonia : assessment of competence based learning

The paper presents the results of the piloting or pilot test in a virtual classroom. This e-portfolio was carried out in the 2005-2006 academic year, with students of the Doctorate in Information Society, at the Open University of Catalonia. The electronic portfolio is a strategy for competence based assessment. This experience shows the types of e-portfolios, where students show their work without interactions, and apply the competence-based learning theories in an interactive portfolio system. The real process of learning is developed in the competency based system, the portfolio not only is a basic bio document, has become a real space for learning with competence model. The paper brings out new ideas and possibilities: the competence-based learning promotes closer relationships between universities and companies and redesigns the pedagogic act.

Combining Generic Programming and Service-Oriented Architectures for the Effective and Timely Development of Complex e-Learning Systems

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