This dissertation analyzes how discourses of risk shape teens’ digital media practices. The purpose is to understand the relationship between discourses of risk, policy regulations, informal learning, and teens’ everyday experiences. This research serves to combat discourses that construct technology as a threat and youth as ‘at-risk’ in two ways. One, it demonstrates the agentive ways teens manage risks and two, it provides empirical evidence of the ways technologies and literacies function as risk reduction strategies. From a Foucauldian perspective of governmentality, this study considers risk to be an always already historically, socially, and politically constructed phenomenon; as such, policies serve as risk intervention strategies. The first part of this dissertation traces how risk discourses are mobilized through moral panics and federal policies regulating young people’s use of the internet. Despite research to the contrary, policies reify anxieties associated with the threat of pornography and predators. As such, policies rely on constructions of young people as passive victims and technologies as risks; such regulations unintentionally limit learning opportunities. The second part analyzes how schools regulate subjects of risk and digital media, as well as how teens themselves manage risks. Ethnographic research was conducted in a large, ethnically diverse, low-income high school in Texas. As part of a team, the researcher spent eight months observing two after-school digital media clubs. The ethnography also consisted of 18 case studies with diverse high school students. Researchers conducted individual, semi-structured, qualitative interviews with the students on a regular basis for an entire academic school year. Findings suggest discourses of risk were mobilized through school district policies which regulated teens’ use of digital media. Specifically, regulations limited students’ opportunities to develop a) social, b) network, and c) critical digital media literacies. However, students generated agentive ways to resist regulations in order to maintain robust peer and learning ecologies. The clubs constructed technologies as interventions for ‘at-risk’ youth. Within informal learning spaces teens a) developed skills, b) acquired social capital, and c) negotiated empowered identities. Lastly, the study considers how teens acknowledged and negotiated risks associated with privacy. Teens demonstrated three strategies for managing consumer and social privacy: a) informational, b) audience management, and c) spatial strategies. / text

Syftet med denna studie var att jämföra vilken mening digital kompetens har mellan två parter: statlig förvaltningsmyndighet, Arbetsförmedlingen, och en kommersiell förvaltningsorganisation, Manpower AB. Varje part var sedd utifrån tre perspektiv: rekryterare/arbetsförmedlare/jobbcoacher, arbetande, arbetssökande. De 24 deltagarna - med 12 deltagare från varje part - har genom intervjuer svarat på frågor som är relaterade till begreppet ”digital”, ”kompetens” och uttrycket ”digital kompetens.” Deras svar skapade tre huvudkategorier; mål, ansvar och personliga villkor i resultatet. Utifrån perspektivet mål framvisas vilken roll organisationerna har i relation till individen och vilken roll individen har i relation till organisationerna. Resultatet visar att utveckling är den centrala målsättningen. Utifrån perspektivet ansvar framvisas vad som förväntas göras för att uppnå målsättningarna. Utifrån perspektivet personliga villkor framvisas vad som krävs av individerna och vilken roll organisationen har för att skapa förutsättningar till att förverkliga målsättningarna. I avsnittet diskussion jämfördes det teoretiska materialet med resultatet som slutligen visar att digital kompetens uppmanar individualism framför kollektivism. / <p>Godkännandedatum 2013-09-20</p>

The purpose of this study is to describe how a high school student retrieves information in order to write a history research paper, and to investigate the role genre plays in this process of search and paper construction. This study interrogates the conditions under which students are sent to the library to complete research assignments. What is absent from the research of school library use is how the kinds of knowledge expected from the students, and how the kinds of uses and manipulations that information is to be put through are connected to the access and retrieval of information. Because use is the final stage in the information process, this problem is approached by examining the assumptions about language, knowledge, and genre that teachers and students bring to research assignments in the school library. Rhetorical genre theory may be used to construct a representation of information use within an educational setting. Rhetorical genre theory will also be used to determine the method of analysis. By examining a few instances of high school history research, we can begin to systematize the features found beyond the sample to a larger study. An interdisciplinary approach that integrates classification theory, information seeking behavior, and rhetorical practices may help to characterize effective models in information retrieval. This model may provide a structure for understanding how a core set of research tasks utilizes a certain set of genres.

Submitted by Denize Lourenço (biblicfp@cfp.ufcg.edu.br) on 2017-12-28T13:57:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 EVANDRO ALVARES DE LIRA - DISSERTAÇÃO PROFLETRAS 2015.pdf: 2973825 bytes, checksum: f107f5f46a78173b5e3e5806e87e1cbd (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-28T13:57:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EVANDRO ALVARES DE LIRA - DISSERTAÇÃO PROFLETRAS 2015.pdf: 2973825 bytes, checksum: f107f5f46a78173b5e3e5806e87e1cbd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-06-16 / As novas tecnologias adentraram de forma perceptível e definitiva em todos os segmentos sociais, numa velocidade ímpar, viabilizando mais precisão e agilidade na execução das atividades cotidianas. A educação não pode ficar à margem desse contexto. Existem várias possibilidades pertinentes de inclusão das novas tecnologias nas propostas pedagógicas. Este trabalho analisou os impactos positivos causados na aprendizagem, a partir da utilização das redes sociais, com foco no Facebook e no Blog, em atividades pedagógicas de produção textual no Ensino Fundamental. Teve como objetivos proporcionar aos discentes eventos de letramento digital e atividades para otimização do desenvolvimento das habilidades em leitura, compreensão e produção de texto. Nessa perspectiva, realizamos a presente pesquisa com alunos do 9º ano do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola pública estadual, situada na cidade de Vitória de Santo Antão, estado de Pernambuco. A pesquisa supracitada foi organizada através da aplicação de um questionário com os professores da Instituição de Ensino que sediou os trabalhos e dois questionários com os alunos que participaram da atividade. Propusemos aos referidos discentes a leitura e a produção de texto de opinião no Facebook e no Blog, criados com esse fim específico, possibilitando a interação entre eles. Essa atividade de intervenção está pautada nos postulados de Braga (2010), Coscarelli (2012), Lévy (1993, 1999), Marcuschi (2010), Moran (2013), Xavier (2010), dentre outros, que nos forneceram embasamento teórico e reflexões acerca da relevância do uso das tecnologias na escola. Os resultados da atividade pedagógica sob a mediação dos recursos tecnológicos, observados ao longo da execução da mesma, através dos constantes monitoramentos e do segundo questionário respondido pelos discentes, revelaram uma considerável motivação na realização dessas tarefas de produção textual. / New technologies stepped into in a perceptible and definitive way in all segments of society, in a unique speed, enabling more precision and agility in the execution of daily activities. Education cannot remain outside this context. There are several relevant possibilities for inclusion of new technologies in pedagogical proposals. This study analyzed the positive impacts on learning, from the use of social networks, focusing on Facebook and Blog, in pedagogical activities of textual production in Elementary Education. It aimed to provide students events of digital literacy and activities to optimize the development of reading skills, comprehension and text production. From this perspective, we conducted this research with students from 9th grade of Elementary Education of a public state school, in the city of Vitoria de Santo Antao, State of Pernambuco. The aforementioned survey was organized through the use of a questionnaire to teachers of the Educational Institution that hosted the work and two questionnaires with students who participated in the activity. We proposed to those students the reading and the text production of opinion on Facebook and Blog, created with this specific purpose, enabling the interaction between them. This intervention activity is guided in the postulates of Braga (2010), Coscarelli (2012), Levy (1993, 1999), Marcuschi (2010), Moran (2013), Xavier (2010 ), among others, who provided us the theoretical basis and reflections on the relevance of the use of technology in school. The results of pedagogical activity under the mediation of technological resources, observed during the execution of it, through constant monitoring and the second questionnaire answered by students, revealed considerable motivation in making these textual production tasks.

abstract: The purpose of this study is to explore the literacy practices members of an online fan community engage in to participate in the space and to question what learning happens through that participation. This dissertation is the product of a two-year virtual ethnographic study of The Sims Writers' Hangout (SWH), a discussion forum website established by fans of The Sims to support members' interests in creating and sharing Sims fan fiction. Affinity space theory informs an understanding of SWH's organization, and a definition of literacies as situated, social practices also frames the study. Data were collected following a discourse-centered online ethnographic approach, which guided systematic observation and interactions with eight key informants. The data corpus includes hundreds of pages of discussion forum posts, member profiles, moderator-created norming texts, numerous digital, multimodal Sims fan fiction texts, virtual interview responses from informants, field notes, and additional virtual artifacts, such as informants' websites and Flickr&reg; photostreams. Study results are presented within three separate manuscripts prepared for publication and presentation, each exploring different lines of inquiry related to SWH. Chapter 3 focuses on tensions visible in the forum discussions to argue for an expansion of affinity space theory that accounts for the &ldquo;hanging out&rdquo; members do in the space. Chapter 4 analyzes one informant's literacy practices using a Design perspective. This analysis reveals the collaborative nature of Sims fan fiction literacies. The final manuscript (Chapter 5) offers an analysis of SWH pedagogy using Bernstein's pedagogic device concept. Data illustrate how pedagogic discourse in this online, informal learning space aligns with and challenges Bernstein's theory. Finally, Chapter 6 offers conclusions about how these three analyses expand our understanding of adolescent literacies and 21st century learning. This chapter also contains implications for theory and practice, recommendations for future research, and reflections on lessons learned. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction 2011

abstract: This study follows three secondary teachers as they facilitate a digital storytelling project with their students for the first time. All three teachers were not specifically trained in digital storytelling in order to investigate what happens when a digital storytelling novice tries to do a project like this with his or her students. The study follows two high school English teachers and one middle school math teacher. Each teacher's experience is shared in a case study, and all three case studies are compared and contrasted in a cross-case analysis. There is a discussion of the types of projects the teachers conducted and any challenges they faced. Strategies to overcome the challenges are also included. A variety of assessment rubrics are included in the appendix. In the review of literature, the history of digital storytelling is illuminated, as are historical concepts of literacy. There is also an exploration of twenty-first century skills including multiliteracies such as media and technology literacy. Both the teachers and their students offer suggestions to future teachers taking on digital storytelling projects. The dissertation ends with a discussion of future scholarship in educational uses of digital storytelling. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction 2011

Essa tese busca compreender as maneiras pelas quais estudantes do PROEJA se utilizam das Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação no seu saber-fazer subsequente, uma vez que os egressos dessa modalidade educacional devem tornar-se cidadãos e profissionais produtivos numa sociedade cada vez mais complexa e tecnológica. Por meio do acompanhamento de grupos virtuais de aprendizagem interturmas do Instituto Federal Fluminense de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia, campus Macaé, procura-se determinar até que ponto os estudantes assim formados conseguem utilizar, no cotidiano/vida profissional, o que foi experenciado como metodologia do ensino formal de Biologia. Como referencial foram utilizadas a pedagogia dialógica de Paulo Freire aplicada ao conceito de letramento no contexto de uma cibercultura e a proposta de Edgar Morin sobre os saberes indispensáveis para a compreensão e inserção no mundo. A metodologia usada é a de estudo de caso, proporcionado um acompanhamento rigoroso e aprofundado dos grupos escolhidos. Ao longo da pesquisa, observou-se que os estudantes em pauta, embora sejam imigrantes digitais e apresentem resistências ao uso de computadores, desenvolvem estratégias de apreensão da ferramenta, indicando a possibilidade de sua posterior utilização competente. Como possibilidades futuras a serem desenvolvidas a partir do estudo realizado, e apontando na direção a novas pesquisas a serem implementadas, pode-se pensar na disciplina escolar Informática como base para realização da integração da matriz curricular, assegurando dessa forma maior contato estudante-ferramenta, no sentido de assegurar seu letramento digital e, dessa forma, traçar caminhos para sua efetiva inserção digital. / This thesis dissertations aims at understanding the ways by which students enrolled in the PROEJA program use Information and Communication Technologies in their posterior “knowing and doing”, since former students of this educational level should be productive professionals and citizens in an increasingly complex and technological society. By following virtual learning groups of learners at the Instituto Federal Fluminense de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia, Macaé campus, this study tried to determine how much those learners can use, in their everyday/professional life, what was experienced in the methodological approach used in the formal teaching of Biology. As theoretical references, this thesis is supported by the dialogical pedagogy of Paulo Freire, applied to literacy within cyberculture, and Edgar Morin’s proposal on the essential set of knowledge for understanding and insertion in the world. The methodology used in the research consisted of a case study, which provided a rigorous and close tracking of the groups selected for the investigation. The research found out that the aforementioned students, though digital immigrants presenting resistance to computer use, developed strategies to incorporate the tool, a fact that indicates the possibility of its future competent use. Results of the study suggest likely future developments, including formal teaching of Computer Basics as an integrative subject in the curriculum. This may assure greater student-tool contact, thus guaranteeing his/her digital literacy, and determine ways for an effective digital inclusion.

Esta dissertação tem por objetivo verificar a importância de um trabalho de formação continuada, visando ao uso eficiente das fontes de pesquisa disponíveis na sociedade atual e suas implicações no grau de letramento dos indivíduos. Focando a utilização do computador enquanto uma ferramenta para a aprendizagem, esta investigação deseja refletir o papel das novas tecnologias na construção do conhecimento dos alunos. Como introdução, são apresentadas algumas características da sociedade da informação do século XXI, as ações políticas que tentam garantir o uso eficiente dos instrumentos de pesquisa disponíveis e o papel de escolas e professores nesse novo contexto de ensino. Em seguida, aprofundamos as reflexões a respeito das peculiaridades da leitura nos ambientes virtuais e as implicações do uso do computador nas escolas brasileiras. No capítulo metodológico, mostramos o contexto em que a pesquisa se desenvolveu, a problematização do tema, detalhamos como se caracteriza o estudo, explicamos, ainda, como se deram a coleta piloto e a definitiva. Baseando-nos nas contribuições da Linguística Aplicada, no que diz respeito à leitura, analisamos se um trabalho de formação continuada, com o objetivo de elevar o grau de letramento dos alunos, permite um uso mais eficiente do computador enquanto suporte para leitura. Como resultado, foi possível refletir sobre algumas ações necessárias para que o uso das novas tecnologias no ensino seja bem-sucedido. Tais reflexões são importantes num momento em que o letramento digital tem sido objeto de preocupação de educadores, escolas e do poder público / This dissertation aims at studying the importance of continuing education work, aiming at the efficient use of research sources in the current society and its implications on the degree of literacy of individuals. Focusing on the use of the computer as a tool for learning, this research wants to reflect the role of new technologies in building the knowledge of the students. As an introduction, a number of characteristics of the information society of the twenty-first century, the political actions that attempt to ensure efficient use of research tools available and the role of schools and professors in this new context of education. Then, we deepen the reflections on the peculiarities of reading in virtual environments and the implications of computer use in the Brazilian schools. In the methodological chapter, we show the context in which the research was developed to question the theme, we detail how to characterize the study, explained, still, as it gave the pilot problematization of the subject, we detail as if it characterizes the study, we explain, still, as they had given to the collection pilot and definitive collection. Based on the contributions of Applied Linguistic, with regard to reading, to analyze a work of continuing education in order to raise the level of literacy of students, allows more efficient use of the computer while reading support. As a result, it is possible to reflect on some necessary actions for the use of the new technologies in education to be successful. These reflections are important at a time when computer literacy has been object of concern of educators, schools and of government

Submitted by Aelson Maciera (aelsoncm@terra.com.br) on 2017-06-23T19:37:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DissLPF.pdf: 52674031 bytes, checksum: c56913b4846a02d6aa1d37cb1569f107 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2017-06-28T19:26:34Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissLPF.pdf: 52674031 bytes, checksum: c56913b4846a02d6aa1d37cb1569f107 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2017-06-28T19:26:42Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissLPF.pdf: 52674031 bytes, checksum: c56913b4846a02d6aa1d37cb1569f107 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-28T19:31:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissLPF.pdf: 52674031 bytes, checksum: c56913b4846a02d6aa1d37cb1569f107 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-01 / Não recebi financiamento / This research aims to investigate in what way the course of continuing education, and more specifically, the discussion in foruns gender conducted online and offered by the National Pact for Literacy in the Age One (PNAIC) / UFSCar contributes to building and reflection of teaching knowledge and literacy of Study advisors (OEs). The function of these advisors is to form literacy teachers for PNAIC, a project that aims to ensure that all children are fully literate by eight. The development of the research took place within the Distance Learning (EaD) in order to discuss about the interactions that occur in the forums offered in the Moodle platform for Advisors´ study. From this ample goal, the research questions were formulated, which consist of: a) How does the discussion forum that environment?; b) How the gender forum provides interaction, and construction of teaching knowledge ?; c) How do the training course and the forum contribute to the digital literacy? The research is guided by theoretical contributions focused on the discursive genre (BAKHTIN,1997; MARCUSCHI, 2002, 2008, 2010), the dialogism (BAKHTIN,1992; 2006), literacy (KLEIMAN, 2005; STREET, 2007; SOARES, 2000) and digital literacy (BUZATO, 2001, 2006; RIBEIRO, 2009; XAVIER, 2007). The research methodology is qualitative and the methodological procedures used include questionnaire analysis, and participant observation. The results suggest that the forum gender causes and encourages interaction between OEs; and apparently it allows for reflection and construction of teaching knowledge; Furthermore the course and the forum contribute to digital literacy, as it implies learning new ways of reading and writing mediated by technological tools, and provides the knowledge / learning of the virtual tool uses, for example, posts of activities and messages. / A presente dissertação teve como objetivo analisar e caracterizar os fóruns de discussão no ambiente Moodle do PNAIC/UFSCar no ano de 2014, levando em consideração a forma de interação propiciada pelo gênero em questão, focando também o letramento digital dos Orientadores de Estudos. A função dos referidos Orientadores consiste em formar os professores alfabetizadores do PNAIC, um projeto que tem como meta garantir que todas as crianças estejam plenamente alfabetizadas até os oito anos de idade. O desenvolvimento da pesquisa deu-se no âmbito da Educação a distância (EaD), com o intuito de discutir a respeito das interações que ocorrem nos fóruns, oferecidos na plataforma Moodle para os Orientadores de Estudos. A partir dessa questão mais ampla, foram elaboradas as questões de pesquisa, que consistem: a) Como se caracteriza o fórum de discussões nesse ambiente?; b) Como o gênero fórum propicia a interação?; c) Como o curso de formação e o fórum contribuem para o letramento digital? A pesquisa é orientada pelos aportes teóricos centrados em reflexões em torno dos conceitos de gênero discursivo (BAKHTIN, 1997; MARCUSCHI, 2002, 2008, 2010), dialogismo (BAKHTIN, 1992; 2006), letramento (KLEIMAN, 2005; STREET, 2007; SOARES, 2000) e letramento digital (BUZATO, 2001, 2006; RIBEIRO, 2009; XAVIER, 2007). A metodologia de pesquisa é de base qualitativa e os procedimentos metodológicos utilizados incluem a análise de questionário, e observação participante. Os resultados sugerem que o gênero fórum provoca e incentiva a interação entre os OEs; e aparentemente possibilita a construção do saber docente; além do curso e do fórum haverem contribuído para o letramento digital, pois implicaram o aprendizado de novas formas de leitura e escrita mediadas por ferramentas tecnológicas, e propiciaram o conhecimento/aprendizado dos usos da ferramenta virtual, por exemplo, postagens de atividades e mensagens.

Submitted by Maria Suzana Diniz (msuzanad@hotmail.com) on 2015-11-20T12:29:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2568927 bytes, checksum: e1edf0e6c9af3f2272f497611d5b407f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-11-20T12:29:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2568927 bytes, checksum: e1edf0e6c9af3f2272f497611d5b407f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-07-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Through this research, goal suggest how to use the blog in Portuguese Language classes in Secondary School, while resource and pedagogical strategy in the development of digital literacy. I seek to accomplish this through the following specific objectives: to propose the use of educational blog in Portuguese Language classes; Report the experiences of using educational blog, "Reading Liberta", in mediating the teaching-learning process; Understand how the pedagogical ideas of learning are designed and incorporated into the construction and use of blogs. The blog "Reading Liberta" was created on July 28, 2010, and, from the beginning, thought to be collaborative, educational and interactive. The work done in this digital environment are guided by educational projects. The research was applied in EMEF Leonidas Santiago, located in Rangel district, in João Pessoa-PB, with 118 students. Regarding methodological procedures, bibliographic and ethnographic study utilized. The qualitative approach enabled the cooperative and interactive engagement between the researcher and the object of study. I chose to work with the blog by it to enable the student to a collective work, permitting the construction of new knowledge. As for the results, I observed, among others, that students have acquired skills and autonomy that allowed them to deal with issues relating to visual design, interaction and navigation and learned to make use of cognitive and metacognitive strategies that allowed the direction, organization, monitoring and critical evaluation of knowledge construction in cyberspace. So the blog is an environment that enables discussions, fosters communication, democratization of ideas, disseminates information and provides the seizure of knowledge with freedom of expression. / Através desta pesquisa, objetivo sugerir como utilizar o blog nas aulas de Língua Portuguesa do Ensino Fundamental II, enquanto recurso e estratégia pedagógica no desenvolvimento do letramento digital. Busco alcançar este objetivo através dos seguintes objetivos específicos: Propor o uso do blog educacional nas aulas de Língua Portuguesa; Relatar as experiências de uso do blog educacional, “A Leitura Liberta”, na mediação do processo de ensino-aprendizagem; Compreender como as ideias pedagógicas de aprendizagem são pensadas e incorporadas na construção e uso dos blogs. O blog “A Leitura Liberta” foi criado em 28 de julho de 2010, sendo, desde o início, pensado para ser colaborativo, pedagógico e interativo. Os trabalhos realizados nesse ambiente digital são guiados por projetos educativos. A pesquisa foi aplicada na EMEF Leônidas Santiago, localizada no bairro do Rangel, em João Pessoa-PB, com 118 alunos. Quanto aos procedimentos metodológicos, utilizei o estudo bibliográfico e etnográfico. A abordagem qualitativa possibilitou o envolvimento cooperativo e interativo entre o pesquisador e o objeto de estudo. Escolhi trabalhar com o blog por ele possibilitar ao aluno um trabalho coletivo, permitindo a construção de novos saberes. Quanto aos resultados, observei, dentre outros, que os alunos adquiriram competências e autonomia que lhes permitiram lidar com questões relativas ao design visual, à interação e à navegação e aprenderam a fazer uso de estratégias cognitivas e metacognitivas que permitiram o direcionamento, a organização, o monitoramento e a avaliação crítica da construção do conhecimento, no ciberespaço. Portanto, o blog é um ambiente que possibilita debates, estimula a comunicação, a democratização de ideias, dissemina informações e proporciona a apreensão de conhecimentos com liberdade de expressão.