Formação tecnológica e o professor de inglês: explorando níveis de letramento digital

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

This research aims at investigating the digital literacy via Internet through the construction of the pedagogical and technological knowledge of in-service teachers of English in order to use the computer in the classroom. It was done through the development of an online course, which aimed at discussing the theoretical aspects of including the computer in their pedagogical practice; developing the teachers skills in terms of the handling of the software Word, Paint and PowerPoint, as well as the creation and upload of WebPages; and, making use of the software, as well as the Internet, as a pedagogical resource in the classroom. It was done through a reflexive process based on each participants individual contexts. The chosen methodological approach was the case study. The participants were five in-service teachers of English, teaching in various educational contexts. They took part in an online course of teacher training, focusing digital literacy. Besides the student-teachers, the researcher of this investigation took part as the tutor of the course. The data analysis searched for digital literacy in relation to the use of the Internet and computer software and in the use of the computer as a pedagogical resource. To be able to verify the development of the digital literacy in the course, the researcher developed three scales aiming at measuring the initial and final literacy of each participant. The scales developed were: Internet Literacy, Software Literacy and Pedagogical Use of Computing Resources. The results showed that the participants were successful in their effort to become digital literate in the Internet, software and pedagogical use of computing resources. The perceived processes were collaborative learning and interaction among peers (student-student, student-tutor-student) together with a reflexive and critical behavior. The results also showed that a theoretical-practical course was very important, since it allowed the theoretical aspects being discussed to be immediately applied. Moreover, the straight application of the principles discussed in the teachers personal educational contexts allowed the experience to become more significative. The participants greater exposition and familiarization with the computer allowed them to become less frightened of the resource, more confident in using it, as well as to lose the impotency feeling when facing this resource, previously seen as resource to be used only by computer experts. Consequently, this greater familiarization led to the first steps in both the search for innovation in the teaching-learning process and the change of the participants educational paradigm

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digital literacy professor de inglês linguistica aplicada tecnologia educacional computador na sala de aula professores de ingles -- formacao profissional ensino auxiliado por computador ensino a distancia computer in the classroom letramento digital teachers of english

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