Tallinn, 19th – 20th October, 2015
Reading and writing on screen -an overview of the Portuguese case�ris Susana Pires Pereira, Lara Gonçalves, Marco Bento, Maria Cristina Vieira da Silva, Maria Manuel Borges & Paulo Faria
Summary 1. Procedure 2. (Some) Findings • Practices • Digital resources
3. (Some) Concluding ideas
Procedure (i) 1.(exploratory) Narrative review in: • RCAAP Database (Portuguese Open Access Scientific Repository) (https://www.rcaap.pt/) • Overview of sanctioned projects by the Ministry of Education in: • ERTE (Educational Resource and Technology Team) (http://www.crie.minedu.pt/index.php?section=1); • School’s Official Website (https://www.portaldasescolas.pt/portal/server.pt/community/00_inicio/239) • School Libraries’ Network (http://www.rbe.mec.pt/np4/home); • National Reading Plan (http://www.planonacionaldeleitura.gov.pt/index1.php).
Procedure (ii) Contacts with: • Educational media industry (R&D projects with Institute of Education of University of Minho) (http://lusoinfo.com/index.php) • Research laboratory at the Department of Informatics of University of Minho (http://www.engagelab.org/) Random search in: • online news • other relevant sites: • http://www.ore.org.pt/observatorio/home.aspx) • https://lerebooks.wordpress.com/
Some general findings
Researched practices Key words
Title
0-8 years old
Key words
Title
0-8 years old
Digital reading
33
6
ebooks
103
3
Digital & Writing
21
1
Tablets
231
4
Mobile learning
51
1
Tablets & school
4
1
Mobile resources
232
1
Tablets & eBooks 2
0
Digital & elementary school
8
3
iPhone
4
0
Digital & pre-school
5
1
Smartphone
30
1
Digital book
32
3
Videogames
68
1
22 officially sanctioned Projects (practices) 20082011
Projecto e.escolinhas (Project e.littleschools) (primary school)
To enhance the use of ICT by using the Magalh茫es computer with connection to the Internet
http://www.ees cola.pt/eescolinha/oquee .aspx
20092015
Conta-nos uma hist贸ria (Tell us a story) Pre- and primary school
To enhance the use digital technologies to record sound and video to tell stories through the construction of podcast
http://erte.dge. mec.pt/index.ph p?section=439
2014
Classrooms of the future E.M.A. Estímulo à melhoria da aprendizagem (Stimulating the improvement of learning) Pre-school onwards; Funded by FKGulbenkian.
2013 Creative Classrooms Lab, coordinated by the European 2015 Schoolnet 6 to 14; (Austria, Belgium, Slovakia, Italy, Lituania, United Kingdom and Portugal; Acer, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Samsung, SMART
2015 Conhecimento à mão cidadania.com (Knowledge at hand – Citizenship.com); Funded by school’s library+ Bibliotecas escolares + locam municipality
Developed in a community of schools. Classrooms are equipped with touch tables, tablets, interactive mobile devices, interactive 3D screen, touch screen, among others, all developed by Promethean classroom software.
http://atb23sa ladofuturo.we ebly.com/espa ccedilo-eequipamentos .html
Focussed on the transformation of pedagogical interactions (activity, collaboration, personalization) through tablet use and their integration with other technology.
http://creative .dge.mec.pt/
Articulates practices that are done in the classroom with school library. Promotes the use of mobile devices and Web 2.0 to promote information and media literacy as well as reading
http://www.ae tcf.pt/mod/for um/discuss.ph p?d=14
Screen-based resources • ERTE educational digital resources, apps, ebooks (http://moodle.erte.dgidc.min-edu.pt/course/view.php?id=579) • National Reading Plan http://www.planonacionaldeleitura.gov.pt/bibliotecadigital/index.php • http://noticias.sapo.pt/nacional/artigo/o-abc-do-livro-digital-para-cria_5561.html
• Other Educational digital technology (mostly online sites to learn) • http://www.portoeditora.pt/ • http://erecursos.lusoinfo.com/
Hybrid technology • Tangible technological developments (http://www.engagelab.org/projects
Some concluding ideas (i) … pointing into areas of potential interest to the project: • Not much research but strong intervention projects (… non researched practices) • Most projects are externally funded (…incapacity of schools to deal with…) • More research 6-onwards …(wider interest in reading & writing on screen in curricular education) • However, 3 research articles about pre-school (digital narratives/storytelling; multimodality, ebooks; podcast; emergent literacy) (… raising interest) • 6-onwards: use of tablets to read and write across the curriculum (ebooks, libraries) (… relevance of the tool) • Digital resources: ‘tradition’ that is being overcome by effervescent production and innovation.
Some concluding ideas (ii) First approach but promising process. Limitations: improve and deepen our methodology; what it does not show‌
Some concluding ideas (iii) My major research question: • What do we mean when we refer to reading and writing on screen from 0-8? How does the new communicative context redefine our understanding of ‘print’ Reading and Writing? • What defines reading on screen? What are its core features? What distinguishes it from reading on paper? • What defines writing on screen? What are its core features? What distinguishes if from writing on paper?