Participação parental : papel da web social numa comunidade educativa com surdos

A inclusão de crianças com surdez pode ser potenciada pelo recurso às ferramentas da web social, destacando-se, neste processo, a importância da construção de relações de colaboração entre toda a comunidade educativa, sendo fundamental valorizar o papel das famílias como potenciadoras de aprendizagem nos diferentes contextos para além da escola. Com o estudo apresentado na presente tese pretende-se compreender de que forma a web social é facilitadora do desenvolvimento de comunidades de partilha que potenciem a aprendizagem de novas competências nos pais, nos alunos e nos profissionais envolvidos. Através de uma metodologia de investigação-ação, ao longo de dois ciclos de investigação, foram analisadas as dinâmicas evolutivas de uma comunidade online desenvolvida numa Escola de Referência para a Educação Bilingue de Alunos Surdos e identificados fatores de mudança e melhoria. Houve evidências de melhoria das competências de literacia digital dos vários grupos de participantes e da mais valia da utilização da comunidade online para a comunicação entre pais e profissionais e entre pais e filhos, gerando um maior suporte à aprendizagem das crianças com surdez. Os resultados indicaram haver ainda a necessidade de promover uma maior formação para profissionais e famílias sobre a implementação de dinâmicas de participação parental e sobre a utilização das ferramentas da web social para a personalização de atividades para as crianças com surdez e para a maior comunicação entre casa e escola. A realização deste estudo contribuiu para identificar dinâmicas promotoras da participação parental, alertando para a necessidade de incluir as famílias como parceiros ativos, adequando e individualizando as práticas pedagógicas, onde as próprias crianças têm um papel essencial na aproximação família-escola.

Tecnologias ubíquas nas aulas de ciências naturais : da surpresa à valorização e utilização plena : um estudo longitudinal

Tese de doutoramento, Educação (Didática das Ciências), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educação, 2014

As bibliotecas escolares e a literacia da informação : um projeto numa turma de 2º ciclo

Trabalho de projeto de mestrado, Educação (Especialidade em Educação e Tecnologias Digitais), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educação, 2014

Ciber-Cidadania : estratégias de construção de valores na Educação Pré-Escolar e no 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico

Mestrado, Educação Pré-Escolar e Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico, 9 de Março de 2016, Universidade dos Açores (Relatório de Estágio).

Learning Activities with Semantic. Hypermedia in Higher Education

The increasing use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in diverse professional and personal contexts calls for new knowledge, and a set of abilities, competences and attitudes, for an active and participative citizenship. In this context it is acknowledged that universities have an important role innovating in the educational use of digital media to promote an inclusive digital literacy. The educational potential of digital technologies and resources has been recognized by both researchers and practitioners. Multiple pedagogical models and research approaches have already contributed to put in evidence the importance of adapting instructional and learning practices and processes to concrete contexts and educational goals. Still, academic and scientific communities believe further investments in ICT research is needed in higher education. This study focuses on educational models that may contribute to support digital technology uses, where these can have cognitive and educational relevance when compared to analogical technologies. A teaching and learning model, centered in the active role of the students in the exploration, production, presentation and discussion of interactive multimedia materials, was developed and applied using the internet and exploring emergent semantic hypermedia formats. The research approach focused on the definition of design principles for developing class activities that were applied in three different iterations in undergraduate courses from two institutions, namely the University of Texas at Austin, USA and the University of Lisbon, Portugal. The analysis of this study made possible to evaluate the potential and efficacy of the model proposed and the authoring tool chosen in the support of metacognitive skills and attitudes related to information structuring and management, storytelling and communication, using computers and the internet.

Aprender com as Tecnologias Digitais: um Modelo em eLearning em Contexto de Sala de Aula no Ensino Superior

O estudo de caso tem por objetivo principal analisar e avaliar a utilização de um Ambiente de Aprendizagem Enriquecido pela Tecnologia (TELE) no Ensino Superior, através do que é normalmente designado de eLearning e, perceber, o impacto que estas metodologias estão a ter no ensino presencial, a forma como estão a ser usadas e de que forma alunos e professores têm sido confrontados com esta realidade. Especificamente visa analisar o impacto da implementação de um modelo de eLearning na aprendizagem e perceber a relação entre uma estratégia metodológica suportada pela LMS Moodle na sala de aula, as competências digitais e skills que os alunos têm e de que forma isso resulta em termos de ensino-aprendizagem. O Moodle foi a plataforma de aprendizagem selecionada enquanto suporte ao processo de ensino-aprendizagem na unidade curricular de Edição Multimédia do curso de Licenciatura em Comunicação Social e Cultural da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), com uma turma de 42 alunos no total. Por conseguinte, foi o ambiente usado para a interação entre os alunos e entre estes com o professor em espaço e tempo extra aula. Com o objetivo de cumprir os objetivos propostos recorreu-se a três instrumentos de recolha de dados: dois questionários aos alunos, em momentos distintos. Primeiro, procurou-se obter conhecimentos sobre as suas competências digitais e, num segundo momento, aferir sobre a perceção e o nível de satisfação dos alunos face ao modelo de aprendizagem implementado; observação não participante de sala de aula (estruturada e naturalista), delimitando-se as seguintes dimensões: estratégias operacionalizadas pelo professor, materiais/recursos e ferramentas utilizadas e práticas e atitudes do aluno; registos da plataforma pela análise das interações entre os alunos e destes com o professor através dos fóruns de discussão. O estudo permitiu atestar o impacto bastante positivo nos níveis de satisfação dos alunos e estabelecer uma relação eficaz entre a tecnologia e a aquisição de aprendizagens significativas: potenciou uma aprendizagem ativa, interativa e um contexto para o trabalho colaborativo; consequente capacidade autorregulatória da aprendizagem; promoveu o desenvolvimento da Literacia digital; possibilitou a adoção de metodologias de aprendizagem diversificadas; contribuiu para o aumento da participação, motivação e entusiasmo dos alunos.

Litteracitet i fem högstadieungdomars en-till-en-datorpraktiker

The study focuses on five lower secondary school pupils’ daily use of their one-toone computers, the overall aim being to investigate literacy in this form of computing. Theoretically, the study is rooted in the New Literacy tradition with an ecological perspective, in combination with socio-semiotic theory in a multimodal perspective. New Literacy in the ecological perspective focuses on literacy practices and place/space and on the links between them. Literacy is viewed as socially based, in specific situations and in recurring social practices. Socio-semiotic theory embodying the multimodal perspective is used for the text analysis. The methodology is known as socio-semiotic ethnography. The ethnographic methods encompass just over two years of fieldwork with participating observations of the five participants’ computing activities at home, at school and elsewhere. The participants, one boy and two girls from the Blue (Anemone) School and two girls from the White (Anemone) School, were chosen to reflect a broad spectrum in terms of sociocultural and socioeconomic background. The study shows the existence of a both broad and deep variation in the way digital literacy features in the participants’ one-to-one computing. These variations are associated with experience in relation to the home, the living environment, place, personal qualities and school. The more varied computer usage of the Blue School participants is connected with the interests they developed in their homes and living environments and in the computing practices undertaken in school. Their more varied usage of the computer is reflected in their broader digital literacy repertoires and their greater number and variety of digital literacy abilities. The Blue School participants’ text production is more multifaceted, covers a wider range of subjects and displays a broader palette of semiotic resources. It also combines more text types and the texts are generally longer than those of the White School participants. The Blue School girls have developed a text culture that is close to that of the school. In their case, there is clear linkage between school-initiated and self-initiated computing activities, while other participants do not have the same opportunities to link and integrate self-initiated computing activities into the school context. It also becomes clear that the Blue School girls can relate and adapt their texts to different communicative practices and recipients. In addition, the study shows that the Blue School girls have some degree of scope in their school practice as a result of incorporating into it certain communicative practices that they have developed in nonschool contexts. Quite contrary to the hopes expressed that one-to-one computing would reduce digital inequality, it has increased between these participants. Whether the same or similar results apply in a larger perspective, on a more structural level, is a question that this study cannot answer. It can only draw attention to the need to investigate the matter. The study shows in a variety of ways that the White School participants do not have the same opportunity to develop their digital literacy as the Blue School participants. In an equivalence perspective, schools have a compensational task to perform. It is abundantly clear from the study that investing in one-to-one projects is not enough to combat digital inequality and achieve the digitisation goals established for school education. Alongside their investments in technology, schools need to develop a didactic that legitimises and compensates for the different circumstances of different pupils. The compensational role of schools in this connection is important not only for the present participants but also for the community at large, in that it can help to secure a cohesive, open and democratic society.

La démocratie à l’heure de l’internet : autonomie politique, vie privée et espace public dans un environnement numérique

L’objectif de cette thèse est double. Premièrement, il s’agira de comprendre l’impact que l’internet peut avoir sur la démocratie, c’est-à-dire de montrer ce que cette technologie change à la démocratie, en développant un cadre conceptuel précis et en m’appuyant sur un corpus empirique important. Il s’agira ensuite de développer un projet normatif, afin de montrer ce qu’il est nécessaire de faire afin de garantir que l’impact de l’internet sur la démocratie sera positif. Pour mener à bien ces objectifs, il me faudra d’abord disposer d’une conception claire de la démocratie. C’est pourquoi je proposerai dans une première partie de la comprendre à partir du concept d’autonomie politique dont je proposerai une analyse conceptuelle au premier chapitre. J’analyserai ensuite deux éléments centraux de ce concept, à savoir la vie privée et l’espace public. Je proposerai dans une deuxième partie une analyse à la fois précise et empiriquement fondée de l’impact de l’internet sur ces deux éléments, afin de présenter un argument qui ne sera pas simplement a priori ou spéculatif. Les conclusions que je présenterai ne vaudront, cependant, que pour l’internet tel qu’il est aujourd’hui, car il est certain qu’il peut évoluer. Il est alors tout à fait possible que ses propriétés cessent de permettre l’augmentation de l’autonomie politique que je décris au cours de ma deuxième partie. Il est donc important de mener à bien une réflexion normative afin d’identifier dans quelle mesure il pourrait être nécessaire de faire quelque chose afin de garantir l’impact positif de l’internet sur l’autonomie politique. Je montrerai donc dans une dernière partie qu’il est nécessaire d’assurer à l’internet une architecture non-discriminante, mais qu’il n’est pas nécessaire de protéger outre mesure la générativité de son écosystème. Je conclurai en montrant l’importance d’offrir à tous des éléments d’une littératie numérique, si l’on souhaite que tous puissent bénéficier des opportunités offertes par le réseau des réseaux.

Privacy

Privacy is a concept that has been with us for hundreds of years, but it is relatively recently (the last 130 years or so) that it has been seen as something that needs protection as a legal right. Technology has presented many challenges to privacy, from the printing press to recording devices to communication hacking, but Social Media seems to present something new - a phenomenon of people giving up their personal information to an extent that would be considered extraordinary just a generation ago. In this lecture we look at attitudes and behaviors around privacy, see how social norms have shaped our expectations of privacy, and how we have come to trade our privacy for value, making complex (and sometimes ill-informed) risk decisions. We will also explore how people really behave on Social Media systems, to see whether we (as a society) should be concerned about modern attitudes to privacy, and whether there are any advantages that might balance that concern. Finally we look at how technology can be applied to the problems of privacy, both as a preventative measure, but also by aiding transparency and helping people to make better privacy decisions. These slides were updated for 2014.

Review: Social Media and Abstract Nouns

The revision slides for our Social Media course, contains major lessons learned throughout the course, and an example exam question (on trust).

Week 2 - Organising Life

Second Computer Applications digital literacy lecture, tackling the issue of using digital tools to help organise our lives.

Computer Applications course materials

The collection of Computer Applications course materials. Lectures, labs, additional resources, the lot!

Finding and Evaluation Information

A first year level introduction to finding and evaluating information (mostly on-line)

WAIS seminar: Computer Science, the Revolution in Schools

Tuesday 22nd April 2014 Speaker(s): Sue Sentance Organiser: Leslie Carr Time: 22/04/2014 15:00-16:00 Location: B32/3077 File size: 698 Mb Abstract Until recently, "computing" education in English schools mainly focused on developing general Digital Literacy and Microsoft Office skills. As of this September, a new curriculum comes into effect that provides a strong emphasis on computation and programming. This change has generated some controversy in the news media (4-year-olds being forced to learn coding! boss of the government’s coding education initiative cannot code shock horror!!!!) and also some concern in the teaching profession (how can we possibly teach programming when none of the teachers know how to program)? Dr Sue Sentance will explain the work of Computing At School, a part of the BCS Academy, in galvanising universities to help teachers learn programming and other computing skills. Come along and find out about the new English Computing Revolution - How will your children and your schools be affected? - How will our University intake change? How will our degrees have to change? - What is happening to the national perception of Computer Science?

Computer Applications: Organising Life

Week 3