Acer-European Schoolnet Educational Netbook Pilot : una experi??ncia sobre l?????s de netbooks a l???aula i algunes relacions amb l???informe PISA

Els autors participants en el projecte d???innovaci?? educativa ???1:1 un ordinador un alumne???, entre l???empresa Acer i l???European Schoolnet, cerquen interpretacions a les correlacions trobades entre els resultats de l???Informe PISA i les enquestes inicials, que es varen fer al professorat participant, a l???inici del projecte esmentat. En aquestes enquestes el professorat express?? els nivells de confian??a a l???hora d???emprar els ordinadors en educaci??.

Entorno de aprendizaje virtual adaptativo soportado por un modelo de usuario integral

El objetivo de esta tesis es mejorar la efectividad y eficiencia de los entornos de aprendizaje virtual. Para lograr este propósito se define un Modelo de Usuario que considera las características del usuario, el contexto y la Interacción. Estas tres dimensiones son integradas en un Modelo de Usuario Integral (MUI) para proveer adaptación de contenido, formato y actividades en entornos educativos con heterogeneidad de usuarios, tecnologías e interacciones. Esta heterogeneidad genera la entrega de contenidos, formatos y actividades inadecuadas para los estudiantes. La particularización del MUI en un entorno educativo es definida Modelo de Estudiante Integral (MEI). Las principales aportaciones de esta tesis son la definición y validación de un MUI, la utilización de un MEI abierto para propiciar la reflexión de los estudiantes sobre sus procesos de aprendizaje, la integración tecnológica con independencia de plataforma y la validación del MEI con estudiantes en escenarios reales.

Educação, globalização e educação a distância

Este artigo procura refletir sobre as Políticas Educacionais adotadas no Brasil no que se refere às ações e aos programas na área de Educação a Distância e a inserção das Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação neste campo. Depois, aborda o processo de globalização e as novas demandas por informação e conhecimento, bem como as mudanças que as Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação favorecem. O artigo discute, ainda, o uso pedagógico da Internet, que proporciona mudanças significativas na educação, sobretudo pela velocidade da produção do conhecimento, o que exige do professor uma constante atualização.

O Ensino Superior e o alargamento a novos públicos: as perceções dos estudantes sobre os cursos online

Este trabalho teve por objetivo identificar as perceções dos estudantes do ensino superior sobre o ensino online, tentando-se perceber como é que encaram o e-learning para a continuação dos estudos. Os resultados obtidos revelam que os estudantes manifestam algumas reticências sobre o ensino online mas, ao mesmo tempo, estão disponíveis para no futuro virem a optar por esse tipo de ensino, reconhecendo o impacto positivo que poderá ter na melhoria das suas qualificações e no desenvolvimento da sua carreira profissional. Concluiu-se que os estudantes valorizam, em primeiro lugar, a redução de custos e a flexibilidade na gestão do tempo.

Why children differ in motivation to learn: insights from 13,000 twins from 6 countries

Little is known about why people differ in their levels of academic motivation. This study explored the etiology of individual differences in enjoyment and self-perceived ability for several school subjects in nearly 13,000 twins aged 9 to 16 from 6 countries. The results showed a striking consistency across ages, school subjects, and cultures. Contrary to common belief, enjoyment of learning and children’s perceptions of their competence were no less heritable than cognitive ability. Genetic factors explained approximately 40% of the variance and all of the observed twins’ similarity in academic motivation. Shared environmental factors, such as home or classroom, did not contribute to the twin’s similarity in academic motivation. Environmental influences stemmed entirely from individual specific experiences.

Is the unfolding of the group discussion off-pattern? Improving coordination support in educational forums using mobile devices

A forum is a valuable tool to foster reflection in an in-depth discussion; however, it forces the course mediator to continually pay close attention in order to coordinate learners` activities. Moreover, monitoring a forum is time consuming given that it is impossible to know in advance when new messages are going to be posted. Additionally, a forum may be inactive for a long period and suddenly receive a burst of messages forcing forum mediators to frequently log on in order to know how the discussion is unfolding to intervene whenever it is necessary. Mediators also need to deal with a large amount of messages to identify off-pattern situations. This work presents a piece of action research that investigates how to improve coordination support in a forum using mobile devices for mitigating mediator`s difficulties in following the status of a forum. Based on summarized information extracted from message meta-data, mediators consult visual information summaries on PDAs and receive textual notifications in their mobile phone. This investigation revealed that mediators used the mobile-based coordination support to keep informed on what is taking place within the forum without the need to log on their desktop computer. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

The connectivity paradox: Students’ use of technology as both help and hindrance, and the challenge of striking a balance.

While there is research supporting the use of technology in classrooms, there is also evidence that technology often disrupts student learning. Examples of technology use in classrooms by both teachers and students will be explored, including the benefits and risks of each to the learning process. Research findings on cognition, attention, and classroom technologies will inform strategies for best practices for classroom technology use.

A provisão pública de ensino superior como mecanismo de seleção por habilidade: evidências para o Brasil

Este trabalho investiga os fatores associados à segregação de alunos entre o Ensino Superior provido publicamente e aquele oferecido pelo setor privado. Com base em dados da Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD/IBGE), são encontrados indícios de que um ano a mais de estudo da mãe do aluno afeta positivamente (0,3 ponto percentual) a probabilidade de o aluno ingressar na rede pública. Em relação à qualidade do Ensino Superior, representada pela nota agregada ao longo do curso da prova objetiva do componente específico do Exame Nacional de Desempenho dos Estudantes (Enade), são encontradas evidências de uma maior qualidade do bem ofertado publicamente em comparação à rede privada: alunos de instituições públicas apresentam nota agregada 6,17 pontos mais elevada. Usando o método de decomposição de Oaxaca-Blinder sobre a nota do Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (Enem) do aluno ingressante, encontra-se que apenas um terço do diferencial de -0,61 pontos na nota entre os alunos da rede privada e os da pública pode ser explicado pelas variáveis observáveis utilizadas, enquanto dois terços do diferencial estariam associados a variáveis não-observáveis, como a habilidade inata do aluno. A nota do Enem, líquida das demais variáveis observáveis, estaria representando, portanto, as características intrínsecas do aluno, inclusive habilidade. Ao se usar esta nota do Enem líquida como variável explicativa na decomposição da nota do Enade de formação geral do ingressante, tem-se que mais de 90% do diferencial de notas entre as redes de ensino podem ser explicados pelas observáveis, e a nota do Enem líquida é o principal fator responsável por explicar este diferencial de notas.

Estudo de viabilidade de parceria público-privada em Educação Básica

O trabalho avalia a viabilidade de utilizar-se da rede privada de escolas para oferecer educação básica aos alunos da rede pública, através do preenchimento da ociosidade existente nos colégios privados.

O processo de criação do programa Universidade para Todos - PROUNI

From the end of the 80s, the Brazilian higher education experience strong growth, coming from the private sector, which would intensify further in the late 90th Higher education has become a lucrative business. With a drop in the number of students entering and strong competition, the number of idle places in private institutions of higher education reached 49.5% in 2004. That same year, by Measure, was the University for All Program (PROUNI) program, to include high school students from public higher education, offering scholarships to those students in private HEIs. In exchange, the IES gain tax exemption. The objective of this research is to investigate the game of interest occurred in the formulation of this program and identify the model and the political game and has led to the creation of PROUNI, analyzing the process occurred since the wording of a bill, the issue of Measure Law and that the legitimacy PROUNI, with the most important changes made initial model. Since the first draft of the Law to the final Act, the PROUNI was disfigured in its main points, as the percentage of stock for paying students, the process of selection of stock and bond of the IES program. Throughout the process of creating the program, it is quite clear the performance of the institutions representing the private higher education. As reference for the analysis was based on Rational Choice Theory of Political Science. The basic argument of the methods based on rational choice is the maximization of the benefit will be the main motivation of individuals, but they can give that your goals can be achieved more effectively through institutional action and thereby discover that their conduct is shaped by institutions. Thus, individuals rationally choose to get to a certain extent constrained to join in certain institutions, whether voluntarily or not. The PROUNI was submitted by government and public policy covered by the mystical aura of the discourse of social justice and economic development, as in higher education includes a stratum of people who would not have access to the university, due to restrictions in the supply network public higher education. However, the greatest benefit from the program are the private HEIs, which through a difficult time in a scenario marked by high competition and idleness of nearly half of the vacancies offered. The PROUNI became a program that prioritizes access and not the residence of the student to higher education. More serious than a supporting program for students Fellows is a program supporting the institutions of private education

A teoria de Dienes no ensino de transformação de medidas de comprimento, área e volume no curso de pedagogia

The study was aimed to test a teaching module on the Zoltan Paul Dienes theory, focusing on the content: The transformation of measurements: length, areas and volumes. The study based on constructivist theory consisted in a methodological intervention with students of the 7th period of the Course of Pedagogy, in Central Campus, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). A preliminary study with 40 students called diagnostic evaluation found that students did not understand the concept of measurements transformation and its processing steps. The latter was performed only with the help of the table of measurements transformation with no understanding of the content. He applied a pretest, a set of activities and a post-test. The latter was used as a tool for evaluation of the student learning process. The answers of these ones were evaluated according to the concept of reflective abstraction of Jean Piaget, one of the authors who influenced the Dienes theory

A concepção de ensino sob medida na obra hygiene mental e educação (1927), de Luiz Antônio dos Santos Lima

This dissertation examines the concept of the personalized teaching proposed by the physician and educator from Rio Grande do Norte Luiz Antonio dos Santos Lima, in his doctoral thesis "Mental Hygiene and Education," published in 1927. To do so, we start from the assumption that this thinker appropriated part of the educational theory formulated by Èdouard Claparède - specifically, in the case of the teaching concepts of the personalized teaching and comprehensive education designed by the Swiss intellectual - and, considering the Brazilian social reality of early twentieth century, reframed these concepts, adapting them to the country context. To implement the proposed idea, the bibliographical study was the option chosen, and so was done through a theoretical research which had as a reference authors whose studies referred to the Brazilian historical moment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, our examined time frame. As for the understanding and the methodological analysis of discourse, seen as socially constructed, the Foucault postulations were studied under an analytical approach, in which the disciplinary society is analyzed from the relations of power and knowledge that exist in it. The main source of this research was the work of "Mental Hygiene and Education," published as a requirement to the obtainment of Luiz Antonio s medical degree by the Rio de Janeiro Medicine School. Thus, it was found that the conception of personalized learning to the comprehensive education of students, as proposed in the doctoral thesis of Luiz Antonio dos Santos Lima, was related to abnormalities of mental character that children could present. School education was thought in a way by the potiguar thinker that it could be applied as deep as the moral, intellectual and behavioral deviations of the individual were, making use of hygiene practices of the minds through a normalizing process towards a civilized and developed future of the Brazilian nation which would manage, watch and fix the thoughts of the school students

Conhecimentos sobre o corpo: uma possibilidade de intervenção pedagógica nas aulas de educação física no ensino médio

The following study aims at the main conceptions around the body and the learning through physical education classes at school. Therefore, this research mainly presents a proposal of pedagogical intervention on physical education for Ensino Médio, centered on the knowledge about the body as well as how to evaluate the impacts of such interventions on the students‟ learning process. In order to surround our field of investigation, this work elaborates the following study questions: a) What have students learned about the body in physical education classes in Ensino Médio at IFRN? b) What methodological possibilities can contribute on the experience of meaningful learning processes in physical education in Ensino Médio related to the knowledge of body aspects? Regarding to the methodology used, this ethnographic research used several instruments for data collecting like dairies, diagnostic activities, self-assessment evaluations, portfolio, filming, photographs and posts on the social network facebook. The materialization of the pedagogical intervention and all of its implications allow us to consider that the physical education classes in Ensino Médio at IFRN, campus Parnamirim have supported meaningful experiences of learning. Also they motivate relevant discussions applicable to the students‟ everyday lives once they are supported by discussions related to the influence of media about the body of teenagers, the irregular use of steroids, massaging as a possibility of body relaxation. Also, we point out that the students had the chance to experience body activities which crossed the limits of physical education classes‟ hegemony at school, such as indoor soccer, dodgeball, volleyball, basketball and handball. Thus, the students could experience body activities beyond the limits of most common sports, which started several discussions about the juvenile universe and culture. Beside the professional and personal importance of this work, we list the scientific relevance for the production of knowledge on the educational field once the number of Works about the knowledge of the body are still only a few. This study is mainly about alternative body practices. Therefore, we consider that the knowledge about the body can and must be studied not only through alternative practices, but also in different approaches which can be attributed to body running phenomenon. Finally, we believe that the discussions hereby motivated about the matter are far from being enough, so we deliver our intention in deepening this study on forthcoming researches about the knowledge of the body in the field of physical education in Ensino Médio