CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / Este estudo consiste em uma investigaÃÃo sobre a inserÃÃo do letramento digital, envolvendo o uso do computador e da Internet, no Ãmbito das prÃticas de linguagens em uma escola pÃblica de Ensino MÃdio. Partiu-se, assim, do pressuposto de que e a linguagem veiculada na Internet, por ser predominantemente hipertextual e multissemiÃtica, e, ainda, por ter redimensionado os processos de comunicaÃÃo e de construÃÃo do conhecimento requer um letramento especÃfico. Desse modo, tal letramento precisa ser contemplado nos currÃculos e nas prÃticas de linguagens escolares, objetivando o desenvolvimento de um letramento que permita aos alunos agirem e interagirem, no universo cibercultural, de forma eficiente, eficaz, crÃtica e Ãtica. A pesquisa se embasa, principalmente, nos Novos Estudos do Letramento (PAHL & ROWSELL, 2012) e, dentro destes, nas ideias de multiletramentos (CAZDEN et al., 1996; ROJO, 2009, 2012), letramento como prÃtica social (STREET, 1984, 2003; LANKSHEAR & KNOBEL, 2006, 2011), e de letramento digital (MARTIN, 2008). No Ãmbito metodolÃgico, a pesquisa consiste em um estudo de caso, de carÃter qualitativo interpretativista, no qual sÃo analisados diversos contextos: inicialmente o prescritivo/orientativo, a partir de cujas informaÃÃes se procedeu ao exame dos demais contextos, a saber, o das condiÃÃes fÃsicas, o da formaÃÃo docente e o das prÃticas. A inclusÃo de todos esses contextos justifica-se por se considerar que a compreensÃo da inserÃÃo dos letramentos no contexto escolar està condicionada por diversas dimensÃes. Os resultados do estudo indicam: (1) falta de sintonia entre os diversos contextos analisados, tendo como consequÃncia uma inserÃÃo mÃnima do letramento digital, no currÃculo escolar; (2) pouca afinidade dos docentes com as condiÃÃes fÃsicas disponÃveis; (3) formaÃÃo docente insuficiente para o desenvolvimento do letramento digital; (4) as prÃticas letradas digitais ainda sÃo bastante incipientes e pontuais, e consideram pouco as prÃticas sociodiscursivas dos alunos exteriores à escola. Portanto, as prÃticas de linguagens precisam ser redimensionadas, no Ãmbito da escola, para contemplarem o letramento digital. / This study consists of an investigation on the inclusion of digital literacy involving the use of computers and the Internet within the scope of language practices in a public secondary school. It is based on the assumption that the language disseminated on the Internet requires specific literacy not only for being predominantly hypertextual and multisemiotic, but also for having resized the processes of communication and knowledge construction. Thus, this literacy needs to be contemplated in school language practices and curricula, aiming at the development of a literacy that enables students to act and interact in the cybercultural universe in an efficient, effective, critical and ethical way. The research was grounded primarily in the new literacy studies (PAHL & ROWSELL, 2012), especially in the ideas of multiliteracies (CAZDEN et al, 1996; ROJO, 2009, 2012), literacy as a social practice (STREET, 1984, 2003; KNOBEL & LANKSHEAR, 2006, 2011) and digital literacy (MARTIN, 2008). At the methodological level, as a case study, this qualitative and interpretative investigation analyzes several contexts: the first one is the prescriptive/guiding context, which provides the necessary information for the examination of the other contexts, namely physical conditions, teacher education and practices. The inclusion of all these contexts is justified on the grounds that the understanding of literacies insertion in the school context is conditioned by several aspects. The results of this study indicate: (1) lack of harmony between the various contexts analyzed, resulting in a minimal insertion of digital literacy in the school curriculum; (2) low affinity of teachers with the physical conditions available; (3) inadequate teacher training for the development of digital literacy; (4) digital literacy practices which are still very incipient and punctual, and consider only those student social and discursive practices outside school. Therefore, language practices need to be resized within the school sphere in order to encompass digital literacy.

Submitted by Celso Magalhaes (celsomagalhaes@ufrrj.br) on 2017-05-16T12:22:46Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016 - Fredy Veras dos Santos.pdf: 1536650 bytes, checksum: d3484f82770e6bffacba25c7eea48d97 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-16T12:22:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016 - Fredy Veras dos Santos.pdf: 1536650 bytes, checksum: d3484f82770e6bffacba25c7eea48d97 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-12 / The aim of this work is to contribute to the better use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for the benefit of inclusion and digital literacy of class 1st year Technical Course in Agriculture Campus Mau?s the Federal Institute of Amazonas. To achieve this goal the research will aim to identify and understand the role of information technology in the teaching and learning point to the possibilities of use of ICTs for Technical Course in Agriculture. The research will be conducted along the lines of action research to be a kind of social research with empirical basis associated with an action to resolve a collective problem that all participants are involved in a cooperative and participatory manner. This methodology chosen was because the project proposal cover, among other issues, the resolution of a common problem whose causes will be investigated further. Seeking to identify at what time ICTs are used and whether they contribute or not as a support tool in the process of teaching and learning, research will carry out the questionnaires with the theme "technology" to identify how the computer used today by teachers and how students use during the exercise of their activities. The result as expected to change the view of the teachers regarding the use of ICTs in Agriculture Course and promotes inclusion and digital literacy and make, in fact, the computer seen as a teaching tool. / O objetivo desse trabalho ? contribuir para a melhor utiliza??o das tecnologias de informa??o e comunica??o (TIC) em benef?cio da inclus?o e letramento digital das turmas de 1? ano do Curso T?cnico em Agropecu?ria do Campus Mau?s do Instituto Federal do Amazonas. Para se atingir esse objetivo a pesquisa ter? como meta identificar e compreender o papel da inform?tica no processo de ensino aprendizagem e apontar as possibilidades de utiliza??o das TICs para o Curso T?cnico em Agropecu?ria. A pesquisa ser? realizada nos moldes da pesquisa-a??o por ser um tipo de pesquisa social com base emp?rica associada com uma a??o para a resolu??o de um problema coletivo onde todos os participantes est?o envolvidos de modo cooperativo ou participativo. Essa metodologia foi escolhida pelo fato de a proposta do projeto abarcar, dentre outros temas, a resolu??o de um problema comum, cujas causas ainda ser?o investigadas. Buscando apontar em que momento as TICs s?o utilizadas e se elas contribuem ou n?o como ferramenta de apoio no processo de ensino aprendizagem, a pesquisa realizar? a aplica??o de question?rios com o tema ?tecnologias? para identificar como a inform?tica ? utilizada, hoje, pelos professores e como os alunos a utilizam durante o exerc?cio de suas atividades. Como resultado se espera mudar a vis?o dos professores com rela??o a utiliza??o das TICs no Curso de Agropecu?ria al?m de promover a inclus?o e letramento digital e fazer com que, de fato, a inform?tica seja vista como uma ferramenta de ensino

Thesis (M.M. (ICT Policy and Regulation))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, 2014. / The research aimed to investigate the supply and demand side factors that enables or hinders the effectiveness of rural connectivity provided through public access points such as the Thusong Service Centres (TSCs). The lack of broadband and terrestrial infrastructure is often cited as the main reason why rural people are not able to participate in the information society. The status of the Mopani District rural connectivity indicates that the digital divide is not always due to the lack of infrastructure, but due to the etic approach towards the deployment of connectivity and the failure to locate rural connectivity within the broader community development goals. The failure to understand the user requirements contributes to the misconception that Very Small Apparatus Terminals (VSAT) satellite technology is an inadequate solution which must be replaced by fixed broadband. On the other hand, the failure of the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) blueprint indicates the poor level of e-government readiness within the public service sector. The status of the Mopani TSCs also shows that there is a lack of accountability, cooperation and collaboration across the three spheres of government and that there is a misuse of public funds in cases where connectivity resources are duplicated and not optimally used. The separation of the public service connectivity from the public connectivity creates the digital inequality in the targeted communities. The separation has resulted in connectivity being available to some and not to all, because accessibility is based on personal relationships. In other cases there is constructed denied access due to local politics. 16 years later since the establishment of the Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa (USAASA), the South African Community Informatics (CI) sector is struggling to achieve outputs that produce the desired impact in the targeted communities.

Students learning English at school and another language at home comprise a rapidly growing segment of U.S. student populations. Language learners can benefit from using technology, but do not always use it advantageously (Katz & Gonzalez, 2016). Many studies address technology’s scholastic use, but few investigate how bilinguals use digital technology at home (Hinostroza, Matamala, Labbé, Claro, & Cabello, 2015), or what it means to them (Toboso-Martin, 2013). This qualitative multiple-case study focuses on the intersection between bilinguals, intergenerational learning, and digital technology. Specifically, it studies how bilingual, Hispanic family members interact around information and communication technology (ICT), and their attitudes toward ICT. Language patterns emerged during paired ICT use. Data were gathered from six Hispanic, bilingual families in the Midwestern U.S. through interviews, observation, and tasks where intergenerational pairs were asked to teach each other about ICT. This study adds to the literature on bilingualism, digital literacy, sociocultural theory, and intergenerational learning. Findings included parental ICT policies of vigilance, access, and trust. Findings support arguments that the digital divide persists as digital literacy. ICT both impeded and promoted intergenerational learning. Findings shed light on bilinguals’ contextualized linguistic needs, and echoed Vygotsky’s writings on gesture, internalized speech, and serial thought processing. English dominated as the language of ICT, but participants used Spanish and English to contextualize problems and negotiate meaning. Findings affirmed factors affecting the quality of ICT use. The author argues that Grosjean’s Complementarity Principle can be applied to digital literacy. Implications for parents, teachers, and researchers are given. Key words: bilingualism, families, intergenerational learning, information and communication technology (ICT), digital technology, digital literacy, home language practices, sociocultural theory, translanguaging

This dissertation study focused on complications and opportunities that surface for classroom learning in the intersections of a teacher’s methods, students’ literacies, and digital space. Though researchers have discussed adolescents’ literacies and participation in out-of-school digital spaces, there persists a need to explore and document the ways educators and students use classroom digital spaces. This study examined the teaching and learning experiences of one teacher and eight students as they collaborate, compose, and produce a literature-based digital role-play. Research questions focused on how the activity of a classroom digital role-play might connect with current literacy reforms, in what ways the teacher’s incorporation of the digital space might shape her classroom identity and pedagogy, and in what ways students’ digital participation might reflect, extend, and negotiate their school-ascribed identities as non-proficient learners. To address these questions, I collected data between March and June 2014 in a 10th grade English language arts classroom of a rural, Midwest public high school. This particular course was designed as an academic literacy support for students labeled as non-proficient school readers. I amassed my data collection from multiple interviews with teacher and student participants, series of classroom observations, student writings, surveys, classroom documents, teaching journals, classroom audio-recordings, and field notes. I analyzed these data using a combination of qualitative methods: ethnographic approaches, narrative inquiry, discourse analysis, and virtual methods. I first created a narrative portrait and analysis of the teacher and students to illuminate participants’ multiple social identities. I next used methods of discourse analysis to examine the teacher and students’ language use in the classroom and digital spaces, to extend my understanding of the way their speech and writing helps them to construct social identities. My findings complicate the way teachers might approach the use of digital spaces. Data reveal ways that the digital role-play space presents disruptions to the teacher’s ways of thinking about her classroom identity and practices. My findings also suggest that the use of a classroom digital space affords opportunities for students to explore their classroom social identities; the digital space flattens traditional school hierarchies in which the teacher leads and students learn. My study is potentially significant in that I explore the way the teacher and students experience and make meaning from the blend of their classroom interactions and digital literacy practices. Further, I argue that folding a digital space into daily classroom life reveals significant possibilities for classroom collaboration, distributed knowledge, and shared learning among students and teacher.

<p>ICT and digital artifacts is an important resource in the society, especially in schools. That is why we have chosen to study if and how teachers uses ICT and other digital technology in their education in the history subject. We think that both subjects are important because history is a subject that has to do with the past, the present and the future.</p><p>We made qualitative interviews with seven teachers from three different schools. We have analyzed if the teachers sees ICT as a burden or a resource in their education and also in which extend they have digital literacy. We have chosen to discuss different authors view on ICT in the education and digital literacy. We also examined the teaching plan Lpo94 to see what it says about media in the history subject.</p><p>In our analysis we have worked with different perspectives on learning and knowledge. These perspectives are a socio cultural perspective, the cognitive view and the behavioristic view.</p><p>The results indicate a connection between a socio cultural perspective and a cognitive view on learning and also in which extend ICT is used in the history education.</p>

ICT and digital artifacts is an important resource in the society, especially in schools. That is why we have chosen to study if and how teachers uses ICT and other digital technology in their education in the history subject. We think that both subjects are important because history is a subject that has to do with the past, the present and the future. We made qualitative interviews with seven teachers from three different schools. We have analyzed if the teachers sees ICT as a burden or a resource in their education and also in which extend they have digital literacy. We have chosen to discuss different authors view on ICT in the education and digital literacy. We also examined the teaching plan Lpo94 to see what it says about media in the history subject. In our analysis we have worked with different perspectives on learning and knowledge. These perspectives are a socio cultural perspective, the cognitive view and the behavioristic view. The results indicate a connection between a socio cultural perspective and a cognitive view on learning and also in which extend ICT is used in the history education.

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.

The purpose of this thesis is to deepen the understanding of our contemporary description of digital literacy using the perspective on knowledge from the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle. I have chosen to deal with the problem using a hermeneutic approach. The method of inquiry is based on close reading of the selected literature. The selection itself has been made after a strategic selection regarding perspective on knowledge and digital literacy. It appears in the thesis that there are substantial differences but also similarities between our contemporary description of digital literacy from Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on key competences for lifelong learning and the perspective on knowledge from the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle.Still, the result has been possible to use for the purpose of the thesis since the problem has an answer and a deepened impression of the understandings of digital literacy.

Medie- och informationskunskap samt medieutbildning har blivit ett omtalat fenomen, inte bara i skolan utan likaså allmänt som en förutsättning för demokrati. Kontakten med media sker förutom via de klassiska medierna så som radio, TV och tidningar, idag även via internet genom datorer, smarta telefoner och surfplattor. Skolan har inte längre monopol på lärandet utan mycket sker utanför skolan, på fritiden, och just genom medier av olika slag. Därför kan skolan behöva använda sig av elevernas verklighet i undervisningen, utan att för den skull ge sig hän åt underhållning. Kunnighet om media på olika plan blir allt viktigare och ger eleverna möjlighet att se bortom budskapen som vill påverka dem i en viss riktning. I den bästa av världar kan eleverna dessutom bli inte bara konsumenter utan dessutom producenter av media.   Medieutbildning genomsyrar styrdokumenten i skolan och syftet med den här uppsatsen är att fokusera på bildämnet som är ett kärnämne när det gäller mediekunskap på grund av sitt fokus på bilder och bildproduktion. Bildämnet har sedan ett par decennier tillbaka i styrdokumenten övergått från att vara enbart ett konstnärligt ämne till att vara ett kommunikationsämne där även det konstnärliga kan användas som en inspiration och ett budskap men där just kommunikationens syfte och användningsområden får mer fokus. I uppsatsens kunskapsöversikt kan anas att bildämnets övergång till kommunikationsämne inte riktigt implementerats i alla klassrum trots att styrdokumenten är tydliga vad gäller detta både i kunskapskraven och i skolans uppdrag.   Resultatet redovisas utifrån ett för skolans medieutbildning framarbetat dokument och visar på att de informanter som intervjuats arbetar med medie- och informationskunskap i bildämnet, på olika sätt och med olika förutsättningar. Eleverna får arbeta med analys av olika sorters bilder, göra foto- och filmarbeten eller tredimensionella uttryck som alla ska kommunicera budskap på något sätt. Svårigheter som nämns är tillgång på digital teknik men också informanternas egen kunskap och utbildning i detsamma, både hårdvara och mjukvara. Detta väcker i sin tur funderingar om högskolornas bildlärarutbildning, om generationsskiften och framtida utmaningar.