Reading and writing on screen an overview of the portuguese case

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?