Dissertations / Theses: 'Everyday digital literacy practices'

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Hodgson, John Michael Purvis. "Grounded literacy : a longitudinal study of young people's everyday media practices." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.444510.

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Winterwood, Fawn Christine Phelps. "Literacy, identity, and digital youth culture understanding the cultural ecology of informal digital literacy practices /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1212410327.

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Albawardi, Areej Hammad. "Digital literacy practices of Saudi female university students." Thesis, University of Reading, 2018. http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/77848/.

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This study examines the way young Saudi women use language and other communicative resources in their digitally mediated interactions. It is motivated by the debate in Saudi Arabia on the impact of digital media on the way people use language, especially Arabic, the way they manage their social relationships, and the way they enact their cultural identities. The study was conducted at a women’s university in the eastern part of Saudi Arabia. A hundred and three participants were asked to complete a questionnaire on their online language use. Forty-seven of those participants were asked to keep a detailed literacy log of their digital practices over a period of four days and to submit samples of their interactions for closer analysis. The theoretical framework used to analyze the data combines concepts from new literacy studies (Barton & Hamilton, 1998; Gee & Hayes, 2010; Street, 2003), multimodal discourse analysis (Kress & Van Leeuwen, 2006; Jewitt, Bezemer, & O'Halloran, 2016), and mediated discourse analysis (Jones & Norris, 2005; Scollon, 2001). The framework sees people’s language use in terms of social practices and explores how those practices are affected by the different media people use to communicate, and how mediated communication is linked to broader issues of culture and identity. The analysis reveals that the participants’ digital practices are multimodal and multilingual, and the choices they make about the codes and modes they use take place in the context of a complex nexus of practice, involving the interaction among (i) the affordances and constrains of the different technologies they use, (ii) the demands of their social relationships, and (iii) their individual experiences and socialization into different ways of communicating. By appropriating different codes and modes in different ways in social media, young Saudi women are able to strategically situate themselves in different cultural ‘worlds’, maintaining traditional identities and cultural practices while at the same time enacting new kinds of identities. The study contributes to the debate on the effect of digital media on language use by adopting a sociocultural approach which links language use to social practices, social relationships and social identities.

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Davies, Huw C. "Challenging orthodoxies in digital literacy : young people's practices online." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2015. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/395344/.

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We are told the Web is different from previous mass communication technologies because its technical affordances have created an informational “Wild West” (Reevell (2007)). We are also told, that by overestimating their ‘savvy’, we have abandoned many young people to the risks of this frontier beyond regulation (Hargittai, 2010) (boyd, 2014) (Livingstone, 2007). Young people are therefore said to be vulnerable to untruths circulating on the Web such as health misinformation (Levin-Zamir, Lemish, & Gofin, 2011) (Hargittai & Young, 2012) and conspiracy theories (Millar, 2012). The advertised remedy for these problem populations of digitally illiterate youths is a programme of re-education. I begin by examining these claims to show the way we have constructed and investigated this problem has shaped our claims about young people online. I argue, in our drive to locate problem populations, we have reduced young people’s relationship with the Web to a series of reductive summative judgments that blame the Web or young people for their lack of digital information literacy. If we accept the current orthodoxy and then blame the Web we offer a technological determinist explanation of reality: technology produces misinformed populations. If we locate the problem solely with young people, as many researchers do, we evoke a legacy of bio-physiological conceptions of youth’s deficiencies. Our social explanations often attribute young people’s deficiencies to their parent’s occupation (the typical proxy in this research domain for socio-economic status) or their ethnicity; but these reduce young people to unreflective victims of structural inequality. I begin by conceptually distancing my research from positivistic methods such as tests and questionnaires that often confirm young people’s relatively powerless position in society (Morrow & Richards, 1996); particularly when these methods result in binary judgments such as ‘unskilled’ or ‘skilled’. I then conceive of young people’s status as a social construct that affects their sense of self while they behave as active agents negotiating their position in society. Similarly, I reconceptualise hitherto fixed categories of information, misinformation, and disinformation as dynamic and socially-produced. I then position this unstable form of information within Foucauldian descriptions of the relationship between informational truths and the production of power in our society. I operationalise these new concepts of youth and information in this domain by using Mason’s (2011) facet methodology and mixed qualitative and digital ethnographic techniques. This combination of concepts (of youth, information, and power) and my research methods, allowed me to investigate the multidirectional and situational environmental and social influences (including my research methods) on youth’s engagements with information on the Web. My findings show that we cannot effectively isolate and implicate the Web, young people, or their socio-economic status as explanations of why and how young people use the Web for information. In analysing the data I began by looking for a conceptual framework that would account for the entanglements of technology, people, and society. This study identifies and analyses how young people’s web practices are defined by “the possibilities and impossibilities” (Bourdieu 1984, p100) that exist within young people’s educational fields and beyond. Although learning new skills is always important, the social context in which these skills are acquired and used is crucial. The social environment influences which skills are naturalised, incentivised, and rewarded. This thesis focuses on this space where, buffeted by the various vested interests who are concerned about how the Web is being utilised; young people are exercising their agency and using the Web in ways that suit their purposes. My research has found young people are not free to use the Web as they please nor do they always consciously or critically reflect on their own practices, yet they do describe complex patterns of usage that help them explore their sense of self as well as society’s norms and values. My data shows young people’s Web usage emerges from the tensions between: how they want to use the Web; how they have learnt to use it; how they have been taught to use it; how they have been allowed to use it; and how these tensions are played-out in context of their contingent social reality. In short, this thesis aims to repatriate young people’s web practices from the sterile, positivist methods space of questionnaires and tests of digital literacy to social contexts of everyday life. Constructions of young people in relation to technology have important consequences. We no longer think young people know what they are doing so we are now looking for evidence to substantiate our intervention strategies. These findings suggest we need to rethink, again, what we mean in our narratives of justification when are describing young people’s digital deficits and digital inequality otherwise these interventions could be ineffective or indeed counterproductive.

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Adams, Megan Elizabeth. "Through Their Lenses: Examining Community-Sponsored Digital Literacy Practices in Appalachia." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1429194448.

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Morris, Janine. "Contexts of Digital Reading: How Genres Affect Reading Practices." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1459243445.

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Campbell, Eduard. "Pre-service teachers' perceptions and practices: integrating digital literacy into English education." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22765.

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Teachers are increasingly expected to use digital resources to facilitate learning. Recent research in Higher Education has indicated the existence of a digital divide among students. With the changing role of the English teacher as a facilitator of critical skills and the traditional centrality of literacy to the English classroom, digital literacy has an integral place in English teacher education, despite its absence from the current South African English curriculum. However, integrating digital literacy is challenging and often resisted by teachers. This qualitative case study provides a detailed description and analysis of how pre-service English teachers perceived their own, their learners' and other teachers' digital literacy practices, and how these perceptions relate to their own practices. The study is informed by post-structuralist theory, drawing on the New Literacy Studies (NLS), which views literacy as embedded in social practice, imbued with power and highly dependent on context. It is believed that gaining a deeper understanding of perceived and actual digital literacy practices within specific contexts could lead to an in-depth knowledge of how digital literacy may be integrated in teacher education. The case comprises four English Method students at a relatively elite South African university who were enrolled for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) professional qualification. The participants viewed their own proficiency in digital literacy as limited. The data were gathered from four sources: the participants' detailed lesson plans where digital literacy has been integrated; their reflections upon these lesson plans; questionnaires providing background on their biographies and experiences with technology and a focused group interview. The study found that the participants associated some digital resources with their own and their learners' private lives and therefore did not recognize the value of these resources as educational tools. In addition, the participants experienced the internet as overwhelming and conflated digital literacy with 'Internet Literacy'. They did not find good examples of practice from other teachers at the schools where they undertook their teaching practicals. The way they perceived their learners' practices could have serious consequences for how they facilitate learning and negotiate power differentials in the classroom. Drawing on these findings, the thesis ends with a framework for the integration of digital literacy into teacher education. The framework draws on insights from Authentic Learning, New Literacy Studies and constructivist notions of learning to propose a carefully-scaffolded model which starts with students' own internet practices and provides models and authentic tasks in order to show them the affordances of digital literacy for promoting learning in the English classroom.

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Cen, Wei. "International students' digital literacy practices and the implications for college ESOL composition classes." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1605279455193093.

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Haynes-Moore, Stacy. "Digital role-play in a secondary English language arts classroom: exploring teacher and students' identities and practices." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6127.

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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.

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Hagge, Julia. "Subtext of Decisions: Literacy Practices in the Context of Coding." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6247.

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In this dissertation I present findings from a qualitative case study of five early adolescents engaged in an online programming community. As a researcher, I was interested in how early adolescents designed digital media as they learned how to code within an online programming community known as Scratch. My research was guided by two questions: (1) What are the literacy practices and processes embedded in the design and collaboration of products created within an online programming community? (2) In what ways do participants make decisions in the design of their projects created in Scratch? The data collected for this descriptive case study included participant created digital media products, interviews, observations, and online community artifacts. Based upon a content analysis of the digital media products and an inductive analysis of the interviews, observations, and community artifacts data, I determined participants demonstrated decisions connected to the design of projects created, decisions focused on the function of projects, and decisions connected with meaning. I created a typography to represent the decisions made by participants as they created projects in Scratch. Additionally, participants expressed a sense of accomplishment and expertise in Scratch product development. Findings from this research provide a nuanced understanding of the literacy practices and processes enacted by early adolescents as they create digital media in an online programming community via the use of coding.

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de, Groot Freek Olaf. "Integrating out-of-class digital literacy development and English literacy practices with classroom language learning and teaching in Thailand." Thesis, University of Reading, 2017. http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/78468/.

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This thesis investigates the digital English literacy practices of Thai student-teachers in order to examine the pedagogical potential of these digitally mediated practices as they cycle through a network of linked social spaces inside and outside of the classroom. Thailand has been facing issues with English language education similar to those in other ASEAN member states. English language proficiency in Thailand is low and ineffective educational reform and traditional approaches to teaching have prevented the development of English language education and teacher education. However, Thailand’s high number of mobile internet subscriptions and high social media penetration suggests that there is great potential to explore learners’ out-of-class digital English literacy practices and the way they may contribute to our understanding of how digital media might be more effectively used in informal language learning contexts. The thesis takes a Mediated Discourse Analysis approach to studying student-teachers’ digitally mediated English literacy practices. A Nexus Analysis was carried out at a provincial teacher training academy in the center of Thailand in order to explore how student-teachers’ digitally-mediated social and literacy practices cycle through and co-exist with other practices in a network of social spaces. These practices and discourses were then traced to see how discourse and action at the microinterpersonal level are linked to wider socio-political and cultural relationships between various interest groups in English language education in Thai society. This thesis shows that the out-of-class digital English literacy practices of Thai student-teachers create affordances for their in-class learning practices as well as a way to mediate their anticipatory discourses regarding their future professional practices as English teachers. However, the pedagogical potential of these digital literacy practices are not effectively utilized due to the static nature of the Thai educational system, the strict social hierarchies it entails, and, the ambivalence between the ways digitally mediated English literacy practices are embedded in student-teachers’ individual historical bodies and the current dominant Discourses on English language education and the use of digital technology as a means to enhance language learning and literacy development in Thailand. Despite the limited utilization of this pedagogical potential, these findings do provide a better understanding of how digital English literacy practices, which are not directly observable, co-exist alongside other literacy and professional practices in a complex network of social spaces. These insights can help learners, teachers, and, administrators in the field of English language teacher education in Thailand and beyond develop the current learning and teaching practices and their application in future professional practices.

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Toney, Jennifer L. Toney. "Third Grade Students Literacy Practices As They Compose Multimodal Texts In A Digital Writing Workshop." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1508600000499313.

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Tan, Lee Wee Lynde. "Adolescent literacies, multimodal textual repertoires and digital media : exploring sites of digital literacy practices and learning, inside and outside school." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.587530.

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In this thesis, I have argued that only when literacy is understood as a 'social practice and the repertoires of the students who use it considered, can a spirit of learner-centeredness be enacted in Singapore's schools. It argues that adolescents engage in multi modal textual repertoires, in and out of school, which comprise the collective assembly, production on the go, mu!titasking and fun. These findings lead to an important understanding that literacy practices may be best understood as a complex configuration of school and home practices which cannot be easily disaggregated into separable school and home practices. This thesis also suggests that literacy and learning are inseparable in social practice, regardless of the sites of their occurrences. Rather than framing school and outside school as two clearly-bounded domains of literacy practices, this thesis contends that the connection between them is captured by the relationship amongst literacy demands, practices and technology affordances. Although this thesis shows that adolescents emphasise the social affordances of digital media in their out-of-school literacy practices, it argues that their participation in these practices have enabled them to meet the demands of their school work and thus sheds light on their ways of learning, namely learning by doing and social learning. Contrary to the widely-cited view that multiliteracies are paramount in this digital age, this thesis highlights the tension in adolescents' identities in learning and suggests that traditional print- based literacy in language learning remains key to their social futures. Drawing on the theoretical underpinnings of New Literacy Studies, this thesis adopted an ethnographic perspective to study ten 14-year-old Chinese adolescents' literacy practices in Singapore. Data for this thesis were collected over a period of eight months from participant observations, with video-and-audio recordings, conducted in a school in Singapore, semi-structured and in- depth text-elicited group and individual interviews, the adolescents' research diaries, and their artefacts from school and out-of-school literacy practices

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Chen, Szu-Yu. "The digital literacy practices of adolescents on a college-affiliated bulletin board system (BBS) in Taiwan." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.578266.

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This thesis investigates adolescents' on line literacy practices on a college-affiliated bulletin board system, BBS, in Taiwan. Aligned with New Literacy Studies, this research project understands BBS texts as a social practice and explores choices of language, writing systems, orthography and language creativity. These linguistic features constitute college students' digital literacy practices and how the students manage to perform their identity in this online community of practice. Viewing BBS texts as a social practice entails the holistic appreciation of the interplay of the purposes, contexts and resources involved in human sense-making that are appropriately approached through qualitative methods, including through taking an emic perspective. Three qualitative methods are combined: textual analysis, an online questionnaire and a semi-structured group interview. Through the analysis of texts, I show how the diverse multimodal affordances of the BBS texts are innovatively exploited by college students. I investigate lexical, grammatical, pragmatic and graphological features of BBS texts, demonstrating innovation in the writing systems, spelling, code-switching and symbols when students compose BBS texts. An online questionnaire and a group interview reveal college students' perceptions and motives that influence their BBS text-making practices. The findings reported in this thesis demonstrate these screen-based texts are multi modal and dynamic, with a combination of image, onomatopoeic sounds and various modes of representation and communication employed. BBS is shown to have enabled an extended set of orthographic choices, reshaping the nature of traditional writing systems. Students make use of these affordances to foreground their friendship, rapport and cultural bond with peers, constituting an affinity space to share common knowledge and conventions on BBS. These college students use representational resources in multilingual, multiscriptual and multimodal text-making practices and play with writing systems, scripts and symbols. This study reveals that BBS in Taiwan provides a fruitful source of materials in exploring the complexity and creativity of adolescents' digital literacy practices, although further developmental work is still needed for future research.

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Akhter, Parven. "Making things in their own way : a study of digital literacy practices in three multilingual households." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9578/.

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The purpose of my study is to contribute to the understanding of the ways in which South Asian children use digital technologies in their homes to learn literacy and language and examine the relationship between home and school discourses. My study explores the ways in which bilingual and multilingual children’s literacy is influenced by their home culture and their engagement with digital technology. The study also considers screen-based multimodal communicative practices. Data collection was conducted over the course of a year and involved three South Asian families including six bilingual/multilingual children in their homes in Northern England. The children’s ages ranged between four and twelve years. An ethnographic methodology was used as a means of understanding the children’s digital practices as they unfolded in their family homes. It included rapport building with the families, obtaining their consent, participant observations, semi-structured interviews and video-recording. A video camera was used to capture digital practices when the children were using a mobile phone, playing Nintendo DSi, making a PowerPoint presentation and accessing online multilingual resources. The video-based data was transcribed using the concept of multimodal interactions. The data analysis employed a thematic approach. From the overall data description, three initial themes emerged: 'literacy-language in a cultural context’, 'home-school relationship' and 'multimodal digital practices in the context of learning literacy and culture’. These initial themes were used to analyse the data further and gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which South Asian family culture influenced children’s literacy and language learning through their use of digital technologies. The main findings recognised that children communicated in the home by combining their bilingual languages in a syncretic process. This bringing together of children’s digital, multimodal and multi-cultural communicative practices provides new insights into the concepts of grammatical trans-languaging, syncretism and hybridity, evident in the children’s chosen activities. The study revealed that their language interaction was intergenerational. The children were creating a hybrid space of practice. The children demonstrated creativity in the construction of hybrid languaging/ trans-languaging. It iii was also evident that heritage language communication, dual language and digital technology skills emerged through the affordance offered by technology to the children. The study explored different kinds of knowledge transfer between home and school. These were literacy, language and heritage culture during children’s use of digital technology. Therefore, children’s home-school linking practices, during their use of digital technology, were understood as schooled constructions of literacy in the multilingual home setting. I viewed this knowledge transfer as symbiotic. It was also apparent that children associated their prior knowledge and experience with new knowledge while using digital technology. This indicates that the children’s learning process extends beyond the visual mode. Children’s currently observable activities revealed a complex process that individualises their learning experience. Overall, multimodal digital literacy practices were extended through the modes selected by the participants and these went beyond the visible modes of communication. This communication was seen as digital and inter-generational multilingual literacy practice in the multilingual household. Finally, the study revealed a new dimension to the theory of multicultural family-focused learning in terms of literacy and language. Children were drawing on different funds of knowledge within their activities. These were digital ‘funds of knowledge’, cultural heritage ‘funds of knowledge’ and home-school link ‘funds of knowledge’. These funds of knowledge integrated into the children’s multicultural family-focused learning and evolved an emergent theory - namely funds of integrative digital multicultural practices. The study implies that, for South Asian children’s home-based literacy and language development, educators need to take cultural context into consideration. Finally, the study suggests that more research is needed into the growing use of digital literacies in home environments and its implications for children’s literacy and language development. This is particularly relevant for research involving bilingual/ multilingual children.

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Santiago, Larisse Barreira de Macedo. "Use of artifacts and virtual digital technology in practice of educational literacy." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2014. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=11494.

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The use of technological resources in education becomes ever more present. With this, new educational practices are designed to achieve a major goal of the school which is to teach literacy and letter. This paper presents the study of Technological Artifacts and Virtual Digital (ATVD) that, through the use of technologies in education, enable different educational literacy practices. We search for research by understanding how educational practices, from the use of virtual and digital technological artifacts can contribute to literacy, which, consequently, will be digital. However, our goal is to investigate the contributions of these artifacts to the literacy practices. On the path followed to answer the research question we draw the following specific objects Sort virtual and digital technological artifacts that can contribute to literacy; investigate which aspects of teaching with the use of virtual technological artifacts in digital literacy actions; Investigate possibilities and limitations of virtual technological artifacts in digital literacy actions under the vision of teachers. From the study of conceptual categories: virtual and digital technological artifacts, educational practices, literacy and digital literacy, as well as exploration of the field of research that will be the Internet. We will conduct a search through the virtual ethnography methodology for the analysis of research data and selection of artifacts that will be understood by observing and open to meet the educational practices developed that could serve as an example and encouragement to the literacy process questionnaires. The daily digital field was divided into three categories: blogs, software and video channels. Each with five representations that are closer to the subject. From the questionnaires it was possible to open educational practices developed by teachers, and know what artifacts to use literacy skills and what think they need to have to use these features. The surveys conducted enable us to understand that cyberspace and its artifacts have yet been little explored in order to publicize the actions of literacies developed by schools. Teachers recognize the importance of using these artifacts and that also require continuing education to perform meaningful work.
O uso de recursos tecnolÃgicos na educaÃÃo se faz cada vez mais presente. Com isso novas prÃticas educativas sÃo desenvolvidas para alcanÃar um dos principais objetivos da escola, que Ã alfabetizar e letrar. Este trabalho traz o estudo dos Artefatos TecnolÃgicos Virtuais e Digitais (ATVD) que, por meio do uso das tecnologias na educaÃÃo, possibilitam prÃticas educativas de letramento. Tem-se por investigaÃÃo a busca pela compreensÃo de como as prÃticas educativas, com o uso dos artefatos tecnolÃgicos virtuais e digitais, podem contribuir para o letramento, que, consequentemente, serÃ digital. O objetivo, contudo Ã investigar as contribuiÃÃes desses artefatos para as prÃticas de letramento. No caminho percorrido para responder Ã questÃo de pesquisa, foram traÃados os seguintes objetos especÃficos: classificar os artefatos tecnolÃgicos virtuais e digitais que podem contribuir para o letramento; investigar aspectos do ensino com o uso de artefatos tecnolÃgicos virtuais e digitais nas aÃÃes de letramento e averiguar possibilidades e limitaÃÃes dos artefatos tecnolÃgicos virtuais e digitais nas aÃÃes de letramento sob a visÃo dos professores. Com base no estudo das categorias conceituais: artefatos tecnolÃgicos virtuais e digitais, prÃticas educativas, letramento e letramento digital, bem como a exploraÃÃo do campo de pesquisa que serÃ a Internet realizar-se-Ã uma pesquisa por intermÃdio da metodologia etnografia virtual para o levantamento dos dados da pesquisa e seleÃÃo dos artefatos que serÃo compreendidos mediante da observaÃÃo e questionÃrios abertos para conhecer as prÃticas educativas desenvolvidas, que poderÃo servir de exemplo e incentivo ao processo de letramento. O diÃrio de campo digital foi dividido em trÃs categorias: âblogsâ, âsoftwaresâ e canais de vÃdeos. Cada uma delas tem cinco representaÃÃes que mais se aproximam da temÃtica. Com base nos questionÃrios abertos, foi possÃvel conhecer as prÃticas educativas desenvolvidas pelas professoras, quais artefatos conhecem e utilizam para o letramento e quais competÃncias acham que precisam ter para utilizar esses recursos. Os levantamentos realizaram nos permitem compreender que o ciberespaÃo e seus artefatos ainda sÃo pouco explorados para divulgar as aÃÃes de letramentos desenvolvidas pelas escolas. Os professores reconhecem a importÃncia de se utilizar esses artefatos e entendem que tambÃm necessitam de formaÃÃo continuada para realizar um trabalho significativo.

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Moore, Jeffrey Salem. "Digital Literacy and Composing Practices of Second Language Students: A Student Perspective on Writing, Technology, and Privilege." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu148715983643726.

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Frier, Aimee. "Beyond Replicative Technology: The Digital Practices of Students with Literacy-Related Learning Difficulties Engaged in Productive Technologies." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7291.

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In this dissertation, I present the findings from a qualitative case study of the digital literacy integration of a teacher and the digital literacy practices of three students with literacy-related learning difficulties within her classroom. As a researcher, I was interested in the ways students with literacy- related learning difficulties navigated digital tools in a technology-infused environment created by a teacher who has experience using digital tools for instructional and student-learning purposes. My research was guided by the following questions: (1) What was the context, content, and structure of the teacher’s technology instruction? (2) In what ways did the students use technological tools? (3) How did students with reading difficulties compose during digital literacy events? The data for this case study included classroom observations, interviews, field notes, work samples, and lesson plans. Through the use of both inductive (Phase I and II) and a priori (Phase III) analysis, the data highlight several important findings to inform the research questions: (a) Knowledge of Technology Does Not Ensure Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (b) Students with Reading Difficulties Still Have Difficulty with Reading Despite Technology Integration and (c) Change in Writing Tool (technology) does not Guarantee Change in Writing Performance.

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Sentwa, Kuhle. "Exploring digital literacy practices of 12- to 15-year-old children from Philippi and Khayelitsha townships in Cape Town." University of the Western Cape, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6275.

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Magister Artium - MA (Linguistics, Language and Communication)
Despite the spread of digital communication technologies and the integration of mobile phones into everyday life, young children's literacy practices are changing rapidly, and schools are struggling to address the potential of these digital communication technologies for learning. Mobile phones are currently a key consumer item, an image of social capital, and they initiate their users into a portable web of numerous applications including those literacy related. Much research has been done on children's relationship with digital technologies and the implications of this for their literacy learning and education in general, but there is almost no research on this in the global south, and almost none in South Africa. Filling this gap is crucial given the crisis in South Africa in basic education. The main aim for this research is to establish the kinds of digital technology and information systems affordances (internet facilities, tablets, books, magazines, newspapers, radios, TVs, video and computer games, etc.) in the homes of the selected children to explore how these digital technologies and information system affordances could be used to enhance the academic literacy development of 12- to 15-year-old children in informal settlements or townships in Cape Town.

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Suwana, Fiona. "Digital media and Indonesian young people: Building sustainable democratic institutions and practices." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/117670/2/Fiona_Suwana_Thesis.pdf.

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In Indonesia digital media practices have enabled more young people than ever before to participate in civic and political activism, but there is little knowledge about the processes, motivations, and literacies that these young people need for their participation. This thesis aims to investigate how Indonesian young people have been able to utilize digital media for civic engagement and political participation to support democracy in Indonesia. This research focuses on Indonesian young people and includes interviews with activists, politicians, and government staff that were involved in the Save KPK Movement 2015, as well as interviews and focus group discussions with university or college students in five universities and one college in or near Jakarta. This research revealed factors that affect young people’s digital media literacy and activism, as well as motivations and deterrents for being politically active in ways that support democratic practices and institutions in Indonesia.

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Phillips, Daphne Pace. "The Left Behind Generation: Instructional Practices to Increase the Technological Literacy of Older Adults." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7888.

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This study sought to explore the utilization and perception of best practices by community-based technology training programs when instructing older adults to become technologically literate. The target population included adults age 55 years and older of the Baby Boomer generational cohort who ranged academically from possessing a high school diploma or General Education Diploma (GED) through a college degree and had enrolled in a local technology training program to improve their technological skill level with the goal of obtaining employment and/or to remain functionally independent. This study was conducted at three community technology training centers located in the southeast that offered computer training classes for both civilian and ex-military older adults and employed a mixed methods research design. Data was collected through a series of participant interviews, surveys, and class observations to establish an understanding of current participant computer literacy status, demographic details and experiences, class structure, the computer curriculum, and training execution. It was the intent of this study to help maintain increased focus on the necessity of reducing the present digital divide that exists between younger and older adults by highlighting the importance of designing technology training programs that incorporated both expert recommended best practices for instructing older adults, as well as the expressed benefit and personal needs of the Baby Boomer population being served by local technology training centers.

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Marzocco, Nadia. "E-learning, language education and the role of writing : a case study." Thesis, Open University, 2012. http://oro.open.ac.uk/49110/.

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This case study of a Swiss adult-learning institution investigates changing literacy practices and skills in adult foreign language education with relation to e-Iearning and with reference to the role of writing. Aspects concerning autonomous learning, teaching presence, and factors influencing the e-learning adoption-innovation process including access, pedagogical and policy-making implications were examined. The study uses both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. It is underpinned by thinking in the New literacy Studies tradition and hopes to fill an existing gap in research, as much of the available literature seems to focus on children or higher education. The main results indicate that currently there is a mix of, on the one hand, low digitally skilled and reluctant teacher-adopters and, on the other, highly enthusiastic an~ digitally motivated ones, There is also an indication that access to simple infrastructure, with a relatively small investment, could produce good results in helping practitioners move along the path from innovation to adoption. Digital literacies and changes in literacy practices tend to put writing at the centre of communication. Writing is intended both as a subject area and as a means of communicating digitally, The results also reveal that the role of writing is closely linked to whether practitioners and learners alike consider the communicative value of writing to be on par with communication using the spoken word, i.e, whether collaborative writing in particular can be considered 'talk', The data points to a joint need by policy-makers and practitioners to acknowledge new digital literacy practices and to include them in a holistic way in local contexts and curricula, It also points to the need for institutions to take responsibility for providing links between research and practice and to provide integrated training in the field of e-learning and blended learning.

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Oliveira, Karoline Leite Guedes de. "Idosos em rede : a construção de novas práticas culturais mediadas por tecnologias." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/70590.

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Atualmente, percebe-se uma tendência acentuada no interesse de idosos pela inclusão digital. Em consequência disto, o envolvimento em novas práticas culturais referente ao universo digital surge em função da pressão social por se manter atualizado e, também, como forma de aproximação da família e amigos de gerações mais novas. O presente trabalho visa analisar a estruturação e organização dos processos de inclusão digital para que haja a apropriação de novas práticas culturais mediadas por tecnologias em rede com idosos. A partir desta diretriz, buscou-se analisar as mudanças que se evidenciam nas práticas culturais destes sujeitos quando mediadas pela tecnologia, bem como, analisar os processos de construção de intersubjetividade atravessados pelas práticas culturais mediadas pelas tecnologias centrado, especialmente, em uma comunidade virtual. Em se tratando da metodologia, desenvolve-se uma netnografia do tipo blended, que envolve, tanto a etnografia como a netnografia. O publico alvo desta pesquisa são 13 idosos que apresentam o interesse em apropriar-se das novas práticas culturais através do uso da tecnologia. O estudo se desenvolveu ao longo de dois anos e possibilitou a coleta de dados a partir da observação participante, diário de campo, entrevistas semiestruturadas, questionário com questões abertas e fechadas e registros on-line dentro da comunidade. Por meio destas, constatou-se a relevância da formação a longo prazo com planejamentos e encontros sistemáticos a fim de que sejam acompanhadas as mudanças na construção das novas práticas culturais e na intersubjetividade. Constatou-se que os letramentos mobilizados por alguns dos sujeitos participantes encontravam-se em níveis diferenciados e em contínuo desenvolvimento. A cerca dos processos intersubjetivos partiu-se das análises dos laços e dos capitais sociais, por meio destes identificou-se que os laços sociais fortes foram uma característica do grupo e a partir destes foram construídos os capitais sociais. Ainda com este enfoque, analisou-se os papéis dos sujeitos e suas modificações que ocorreram de modo processual. Concluiu-se, também, com esta pesquisa que a aprendizagem que envolveu os idosos foi compartilhada e fundamentada em histórias de vida, permeadas de dúvidas, conquistas, dificuldades e superações. No âmbito digital, a idade não se apresentou como um fator que definisse o acesso às possibilidades de possuir uma melhor qualidade de vida que surgiram com o computador.
Nowadays, it can be seen an increasing tendency in the interest of elderly people for digital inclusion. As a result of that the involvement in new cultural practices related to the digital universe arises due to the social pressure to keep up, and also as a way to become closer to family and friends of younger generations. This study aims to analyze the structure and organization of digital inclusion processes to provide appropriation of new cultural practices mediated by network technologies with older people. Based on this guideline, we attempted to analyze the changes that were revealed in the cultural practices of these subjects when mediated by technology, as well as analyze the processes of construction of intersubjectivity that are permeated by the cultural practices mediated by technologies and centered, especially, in a virtual community. In terms of methodology, a blended netnography was developed which involves both ethnography as netnography. The target audience of this research are 13 seniors who have an interest in appropriating the new cultural practices through the use of technology. The study was conducted over the period of two years and allowed the data collection from the participant observation, field journal, semistructured interviews, questionnaire with open and closed questions and online records within the community. Through this collected data, we realized the relevance of long-term training with planning and systematic meetings so that the changes in the construction of new cultural practices and intersubjectivity are accompanied. It is noted that the Literacies mobilized by some participants are at different levels and in continuous development. On the subject of intersubjective processes we start the analysis of ties and some types of social capital through these we identified that strong social ties were a feature of the group and from these were built social capital. Still on this goal we analyzed the roles of the subjects and identified that their changes occurred in a procedural way. We conclude, also, with this research that the learning process which involved the subjects was shared and based on life stories, permeated by doubts, conquers, difficulties and overcoming. In the digital field, age did not appear as a factor that defined the access to possibilities of having a better quality of life that came with the computer.

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Wolferink-Schaap, Gaby S. "This is not working : an ethnographic exploration of the symbolically violent nature of everyday unemployment and job searching practices." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2017. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/25180.

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This thesis explores the everyday experiences with unemployment and job searching practices in a so-called work club in Northern England. A work club is a place, often a community initiative, where jobseekers who are finding it difficult to look for work independently can go to for support and assistance. These initiatives are encouraged to be set up by volunteers by the UK Department for Work and Pensions and its Jobcentre Plus and are aimed at reducing unemployment levels by helping people apply for jobs. Specifically, the thesis focuses on contemporary job searching practices and asks what Banterby SC work club, the fictional name of the field work location, can tell us about how neoliberal ideologies influence both these job searching practices as well as the way we think about the relationship between employment and citizenship. Work clubs have only received scant academic attention, and this study shows how more in-depth explorations can provide us with some valuable insights. Specifically, because doing so helps us to look beyond policy formulations, framings and imperatives to the implications of neoliberal ideologies in peoples everyday lives. The study uses an iterative inductive ethnographic approach, focusing on one single site field work location, encompassing two hundred hours of field work, during which at least 96 jobseekers have visited the premises of the work club. The study s approach to doing ethnographic fieldwork was based on viewing participant observation as hanging out ; that is, more than merely being somewhere, but rather as engaging and being active in an informal fashion, something that the flexible and unstructured nature of the field work location suited very well. Through this ethnographic, in-depth exploration, then, I do not only explore the observations and findings as offered by some of the previous scholars exploring work clubs, but also seek to connect the findings to Bourdieu s theories of symbolic power/violence as a theoretical framework, which allows us to explore the wider implications of neoliberal governmentalities imposed on jobseekers that influence their everyday practices. This study extends not only our knowledge of the lived experiences of unemployment, but also provides a contemporary insight into work clubs, and how Banterby SC work club has proven to be a valuable site of knowledge about everyday experiences with neoliberal governmentalities toward unemployment and job searching practices. It also extends the application of a symbolic power/violence lens by bringing it together with Foucault s neoliberal governmentalities. Specifically, the study argues that neoliberal governmentalities influencing job searching and unemployment practices are a form of symbolic violence. This approach helps us to problematise job searching practices at work clubs in order to argue for increased critical attention on these sites. Furthermore, the study uncovers the extent to which a welfare system gearing towards a digital by default administration disadvantages many jobseekers who are finding it difficult to work with computers and navigate the internet. The study also addresses and explores to what extent compliance with symbolic power/violence is also shared by staff and volunteers of third sector organisations whose main goal it is to alleviate the burden of unemployment by assisting jobseekers to fulfil their job searching obligations as asked of them by the Department for Work and Pensions and the Jobcentre Plus. Finally, the study calls for more beneficiary-centred voluntary sector research, and proposes a new methodological model for exploring voluntary action and organizations, arguing for a more integrated analysis of the experiences of various actors.

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Rish, Ryan M. "Engaging Adolescents' Interests, Literacy Practices, and Identities: Digital Collaborative Writing of Fantasy Fiction in a High School English Elective Class." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316521200.

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Wiratmojo, Yoseph Bambang [Verfasser], and Uwe [Akademischer Betreuer] Hasebrink. "Indonesian Adolescents' Digital Literacy, Privacy Practices on Social Network Sites (SNSs), and Bullying Experiences in Cyberspace / Yoseph Bambang Wiratmojo ; Betreuer: Uwe Hasebrink." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1212180917/34.

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Bridgewater, Matthew. "Writing in the Age of Mobile: Smartphone and Tablet Multiliteracies and Their Implications for Writing as Process." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1386939727.

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Fusco, Andrea Cristian [UNESP]. "Práticas letradas/escritas na internet: marcas do outro no processo de textualização via MSN." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/86578.

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Este trabalho de pesquisa propõe-se a investigar se e de que modo a relação aluno/professora de Língua Portuguesa se (re)constitui em práticas de letramento/escrita em ambientes virtuais de enunciação. O conjunto do material é formado por 23 “conversas” via Windows Live Messenger (popularmente chamado de MSN), coletadas entre 2010 e 2011, totalizando 8h31min de interação on-line entre adolescentes ─ alunos da rede municipal de ensino de São José do Rio Preto (SP), na faixa etária de 13 a 15 anos, com acesso frequente à internet e às práticas de letramento/escrita em meio digital ─ e professora de Língua Portuguesa. Ao analisarem-se essas “conversas”, tenciona-se discutir que a escrita em ambientes digitais – por ser prática social de linguagem – não se constitui apenas em função da tecnologia que lhe dá suporte – embora não se possa desprezá-la –, mas a partir de um conjunto de relações dialógicas com a alteridade. Ao apresentar análise descritiva do corpus à luz dos conceitos de heterogeneidade propostos por Authier-Revuz (2004) e do modo heterogêneo de constituição da escrita, proposto por Corrêa (2004), este trabalho busca investigar, nos enunciados analisados, marcas linguísticas que demonstrem que a escrita constitui-se como modo de enunciação dividida entre sujeitos socialmente organizados e historicamente situados. Nesse contexto, o presente trabalho discute marcas linguísticas – pontos de heterogeneidade – que denotam que, ao “conversarem” pelo MSN, os sujeitos, ao mesmo tempo, atualizam e transformam as relações que os constituem enquanto aluno e professora
This research paper aims to investigate if and in which way the Portuguese Language teacher/student relation is (re)established in literacy/writing practices in virtual environments of utterance. The material, which was collected between 2010 and 2011, is composed of 23 “chats” via Windows Live Messenger (MSN), with a total of 8h31min online interaction between the teenagers – local school students from São José do Rio Preto (SP), between 13 and 15 years old, who frequently had access to the internet and the literacy/writing practices in electronic format - and the Portuguese Language teacher. The analyzes of these chats argues that the writing in digital environment – for being language social practice- is not only constituted by the technological function support – although this cannot be despised -, but also from a group of dialogue relations on account of the otherness. By presenting the corpus descriptive analyzes according to the concepts of heterogeneity suggested by Authier-Revuz (2004) and the heterogeneous mode of the writing constitution proposed by Corrêa (2004), this paper aims to show (in the analyzed material) linguistic marks, which demonstrate that the writing consists of utterance mode, divided into socially organized and historically situated individuals. The present paper then, tries to show that it is possible to point out linguistic marks - heterogeneity points – ,which mean that once individuals are chatting on the MSN, they are not only updating their already constituted teacher/student relation, but also transforming it

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Fusco, Andrea Cristian. "Práticas letradas/escritas na internet : marcas do outro no processo de textualização via MSN /." São José do Rio Preto : [s.n.], 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/86578.

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Resumo: Este trabalho de pesquisa propõe-se a investigar se e de que modo a relação aluno/professora de Língua Portuguesa se (re)constitui em práticas de letramento/escrita em ambientes virtuais de enunciação. O conjunto do material é formado por 23 "conversas" via Windows Live Messenger (popularmente chamado de MSN), coletadas entre 2010 e 2011, totalizando 8h31min de interação on-line entre adolescentes ─ alunos da rede municipal de ensino de São José do Rio Preto (SP), na faixa etária de 13 a 15 anos, com acesso frequente à internet e às práticas de letramento/escrita em meio digital ─ e professora de Língua Portuguesa. Ao analisarem-se essas "conversas", tenciona-se discutir que a escrita em ambientes digitais - por ser prática social de linguagem - não se constitui apenas em função da tecnologia que lhe dá suporte - embora não se possa desprezá-la -, mas a partir de um conjunto de relações dialógicas com a alteridade. Ao apresentar análise descritiva do corpus à luz dos conceitos de heterogeneidade propostos por Authier-Revuz (2004) e do modo heterogêneo de constituição da escrita, proposto por Corrêa (2004), este trabalho busca investigar, nos enunciados analisados, marcas linguísticas que demonstrem que a escrita constitui-se como modo de enunciação dividida entre sujeitos socialmente organizados e historicamente situados. Nesse contexto, o presente trabalho discute marcas linguísticas - pontos de heterogeneidade - que denotam que, ao "conversarem" pelo MSN, os sujeitos, ao mesmo tempo, atualizam e transformam as relações que os constituem enquanto aluno e professora
Abstract: This research paper aims to investigate if and in which way the Portuguese Language teacher/student relation is (re)established in literacy/writing practices in virtual environments of utterance. The material, which was collected between 2010 and 2011, is composed of 23 "chats" via Windows Live Messenger (MSN), with a total of 8h31min online interaction between the teenagers - local school students from São José do Rio Preto (SP), between 13 and 15 years old, who frequently had access to the internet and the literacy/writing practices in electronic format - and the Portuguese Language teacher. The analyzes of these chats argues that the writing in digital environment - for being language social practice- is not only constituted by the technological function support - although this cannot be despised -, but also from a group of dialogue relations on account of the otherness. By presenting the corpus descriptive analyzes according to the concepts of heterogeneity suggested by Authier-Revuz (2004) and the heterogeneous mode of the writing constitution proposed by Corrêa (2004), this paper aims to show (in the analyzed material) linguistic marks, which demonstrate that the writing consists of utterance mode, divided into socially organized and historically situated individuals. The present paper then, tries to show that it is possible to point out linguistic marks - heterogeneity points - ,which mean that once individuals are chatting on the MSN, they are not only updating their already constituted teacher/student relation, but also transforming it
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Schonz, Mariane Maria. "O laptop educacional na sala de aula : movimentos de letramento digital nas práticas de leitura e escrita de estudantes do ensino fundamental." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2013. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/651.

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Esta dissertação tem como objetivo principal investigar como os movimentos de letramento digital ocorrem nas práticas de leitura e escrita no contexto da inserção dos laptops em uma escola de ensino fundamental. O estudo tem como referência teórica a Epistemologia Genética de Piaget e a concepção de letramento digital de Soares e Lévy. A pesquisa possui um caráter exploratório, em que o delineamento metodológico é dado pelo Estudo de Caso. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram quatro estudantes de 13 anos de idade, do 6º ano do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola pública envolvida no projeto UCA, etapa II. As fontes de evidência que constituíram o corpus foram o diário de bordo da pesquisadora, as transcrições das filmagens e as produções de texto dos sujeitos desta pesquisa. O método clínico piagetiano inspirou as observações e intervenções. Os procedimentos de análise foram desenvolvidos a partir da Análise Textual Discursiva de Moraes e Galiazzi (2007), em conformidade com as etapas sugeridas por esses autores. As categorias de análise foram se constituindo a partir do olhar para as fontes de evidência, levando em conta o movimento dos sujeitos e o movimento da pesquisadora na apropriação do campo conceitual, constituindo as categorias: (a) leitura e escrita digital, (b) fluência digital e (c) buscar e pesquisar na web. A partir dos elementos teóricos e compreensões no decorrer do processo, apresentamos alguns possíveis norteadores para que os processos de leitura e escrita possam conter práticas de letramento digital. Compreendemos que a inserção do laptop na escola está provocando perturbações, mas ainda não se constituiu em um novo contexto de ensino e aprendizagem, contudo, está em processo de constituição. Os movimentos de letramento digital, muitas vezes, são minimizados pelos professores, não oportunizando ou dando abertura para os estudantes fazerem escolhas e potencializarem suas práticas com esse novo elemento na sala de aula. Mesmo assim, foi possível perceber, nos estudantes, indícios de práticas de letramento digital, como a fluência digital e práticas de leitura e escrita no contexto digital.
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This master’s thesis has as its main goal to investigate how digital literacy movements take place in the reading and writing practices in the context of introducing laptops in an elementary school. The study has Piaget’s genetic epistemology and Soares’ and Levy’s concepts for digital literacy as its theoretical reference. The research has an exploratory approach in which the methodological outline is given by a case study. Research subjects were four 13-year-old students, from the 6th grade at a public elementary school involved in the Projeto UCA (Brazilian program for the One Laptop per Child program), on its second phase. Evidence sources for the corpus were the researcher’s log book, video transcripts, and the writing production by the subjects of the research. Piaget’s clinical method inspired the observations and interventions. Analysis procedures were followed as per Moraes and Galiazzi’s (2007) and their procedures recommended for text discourse analysis. The categories for the analysis were developed from looking at the evidence sources, considering the subjects’ movements and the researcher’s movement as she appropriated the theoretical concepts. Those categories were: a) digital reading and writing; b) digital fluency; and c) searching on the web. From the theoretical elements and our understanding during the process, we present some possible guidelines so that reading and writing processes can contain practices of digital literacy. We understand that introducing the laptop in school has been causing some perturbation, but hasn’t constituted a new teaching and learning context yet; it is still in process. Movements towards digital literacy are sometimes minimized by the teachers, who do not create opportunities or chances for the students to make their own choices and potentialize their practices with this new element in the classroom. Even so, it was possible to notice some signs of students’ practices of digital literacy, such as digital fluency and reading and writing in the digital context.

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Goodsett, Mandi. "Determining the Extent to Which Information Literacy Online Learning Objects Follow Best Practices for Teaching and Assessing Critical Thinking." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1526048546211971.

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Hosek, Vicki Ann. "Locating the Critical Component in Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK)| An Examination of How Graduate Students Recruit TPACK and Critical Digital Literacy into Classroom Practices." Thesis, Illinois State University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10978267.

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The objectives of this study were to gain an understanding of how practicing teachers believe they are prepared to meaningfully and critically integrate technology into their classroom practices; and to understand how practicing teachers recruited those beliefs into their teaching practices. This included gaining an understanding of what they believed led to their engagement in the critical dimensions of technology use in their teaching practices. This mixed-methods study contained two phases. In Phase 1, 58 graduate students in a College of Education completed a newly developed Critical Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (C-TPACK) survey containing likert-scale and open-ended questions. A subset of four graduate students, who were also practicing teachers, participated in Phase 2 of this study where lesson plans, observations, and interviews were analyzed. The findings indicated that limited training in and exposure to C-TPACK during teacher education coursework and professional development (PD), uncertainty about students’ critical digital literacies (CDL), the teachers’ varying understandings of CDL, resource limitations and restrictive school policies posed barriers for the teachers’ recruitment of CTPACK to their practices. These findings showed the importance of tying critical theory to technology in education coursework and PD programs. This study proposes the use of a theoretical framework that prioritizes critical theory, namely the C-TPACK framework, when analyzing teachers’ technology integration practices. KEYWORDS: TPACK, C-TPACK, critical digital literacy, digital literacy, teacher education, professional development

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Makaza, Linda Olive. "Exploring the potential of digital storytelling in the teaching of academic writing at a higher education institution in the Western Cape." university of western cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7299.

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Writing is an important skill throughout learners’ schooling trajectory because it is through writing that learners need to situate meaning and sense-making across the curriculum. Writing proficiency becomes even more important when learners access tertiary studies. Yet studies suggest that most students struggle with academic writing. Various authors suggest that writing has not been taught appropriately especially in secondary schooling contexts in South Africa and that writing becomes even more daunting for Second Language speakers of English when they reach tertiary education. There is abundant literature on students’ challenges with academic writing and ways to address academic writing challenges but the use of digital storytelling in relation to academic writing development is recent and distinctively underexplored in the literature.

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Maciel, Gerson Luís. "O uso de ambiente colaborativo digital como ferramenta de produção da escrita na escola." Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, 2016. http://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/3458.

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Traditional studies of Portuguese language are focused on grammar rules, also known as prescriptive. But there are some text studies and decades of discourse brought new way to treat the text, which has been occurring since the 1980s Moreover, with the advent of information and communication technologies, it is often the production and circulation of texts hybrids, or produced from many semiosis. In literacy events of this nature, the statements that are part of the lives of adolescents and young people are thus produced and circulate in technologies that combine sound, image, movement and words in a multi-way relationship. In this context, treating the text considering only the verbal aspect is to ignore the extent of any practical language usages in which adolescents and young people are included. Therefore, to meet a teaching project whose goal is to understand the writing production in more authentic situations, it is necessary to consider the relationship between teens, technology and virtual environment. The emergence and popularization of hybrid texts in multiple contexts, makes it even more complex craft teacher in work, school, text and context. And it is this complexity that motivated the objectives of this study and therefore the formulation of the question: - What brings gains for the production written at school, the exploitation of activities in digital collaborative environment? This work is a qualitative-interpretative and ethnographic research from documents located in the area of Applied Linguistics and comprises the production of gender "opinion piece" production that performed in five groups of students about in digital tool - Google Drive - connected to the internet. The records generated by this tool form the analysis of material from which the data in this study were generated. The overall objective was to conclude that earnings exploitation of literacy practices in collaborative virtual environment can be obtained for the production of writing in school. As for the specific objectives are to analyze how interactions (speeches and dialogues) between students build a knowledge related to the production of written texts and how the digital context affects the configuration of the proposed speech. The analysis found that the displacement of predominantly verbal text focus to set multisemiotic brought some gains for writing production, for example, exploring the relationship between verbal and image, using link and hyperlink to establish a relationship Intertextual and increase the informative and argumentative level of the text. The articulation of different semiosis, in a multiplicity of meanings, extends the ideas contained in the final text of groups produsuários students. It was also detected that the use, by itself, does not bring new technology guarantees that the operation of large amounts of light information to produce a better quality writing point of view of integration skills.
Os estudos tradicionais de Língua Portuguesa se focalizam na gramática normativa, também conhecida como prescritiva. Porém há algumas décadas estudos do texto e do discurso trouxera nova maneira de tratar o texto, o que vem ocorrendo desde os anos 1980. Além disso, com o advento das tecnologias da informação e de comunicação, é frequente a produção e a circulação de textos híbridos, ou seja, produzidos a partir de muitas semioses. Em eventos de letramento dessa natureza, os enunciados que fazem parte da vida dos adolescentes e dos jovens são, pois, produzidos e circulam em tecnologias que misturam som, imagem, movimentos e palavras em uma relação de múltiplos sentidos. Diante desse contexto, tratar o texto considerando somente o aspecto verbal é ignorar a dimensão das práticas significativas de usos de linguagens em que adolescentes e jovens estão inseridos. Assim sendo, para atender a uma proposta de ensino cujo objetivo seja compreender a produção de escrita em situações mais autênticas, é necessário considerar a relação entre adolescentes, tecnologia e ambiente virtual. O surgimento e a popularização de textos híbridos, em múltiplos contextos, torna ainda mais complexo o ofício do professor em trabalhar, na escola, o texto e o contexto. E é exatamente essa complexidade que motivou os objetivos deste trabalho e, por consequência, a formulação da seguinte pergunta: – Que ganhos traz, para a produção escrita na escola, a exploração das atividades em ambiente colaborativo digital no Ensino Fundamental? Este trabalho é uma pesquisa qualitativo-interpretativa e de cunho etnográfico, com análise documental situada na área da Linguística Aplicada e compreende a produção do gênero “artigo de opinião”, produção essa realizada em grupos de cinco alunos aproximadamente, em ferramenta digital – Google Drive – conectada à internet. Os registros gerados por essa ferramenta formam o material de análise a partir do qual os dados deste estudo foram gerados. A pesquisa foi realizada em uma escola pública no município de Foz do Iguaçu e foram envolvidas duas turmas do nono ano. O objetivo geral consistiu em depreender que ganhos a exploração de práticas letradas em ambiente virtual colaborativo podem ser obtidos para a produção de escrita na escola. Já quanto aos objetivos específicos, consistem em analisar como as interações (intervenções e diálogos) entre os alunos constroem um saber relacionado à produção de textos escritos e como o contexto digital afeta a configuração do discurso proposto. A análise detectou que o deslocamento do foco do texto predominantemente verbal para enunciados multissemióticos trouxe alguns ganhos para a produção da escrita, como, por exemplo, a exploração da relação entre linguagem verbal e imagem, o uso de link e de hiperlink para estabelecer relação intertextual e aumentar o grau informativo e argumentativo do texto. A articulação das diferentes semioses, em uma multiplicidade de sentidos, amplia as ideias contidas nos textos finais dos grupos de alunos produsuários. Detectou-se também que o emprego, por si só, de novas tecnologias não traz garantias de que a exploração de grandes quantidades de informações leve à produção de uma escrita de melhor qualidade do ponto de vista da integração de conhecimentos.

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Testa, Elizabeth Ann. "Behind the Screens: A Case Study Exploring the Integration of Digital Readers Into a 12th Grade English Classroom." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1413230472.

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Santos, Maurício Nascimento dos. "A sociedade da informação no século XXI: o cotidiano na cultura digital e a leitura como prática cultural." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2016. http://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/2597.

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Digital culture - forged by the information revolution of the 60s by the advent of new information technologies and communication, especially the computer and the Internet - has constituted this century a social process of long unplanned duration, inaugurating a new social and cultural space: cyberspace. The world has become culture, a culture-world, where power flows is more important than the power flows in an informational and global society. In this society in transformation, tecnichian process, whose technique is an anthropological constant, the notions of individual, species, society and culture, need to be (re) connected to understand the new ways of thinking, acting and feeling this new social context. Among the diverse cultural practices daily reading, it is one of the most important and is constituted as a reality shared meanings intersubjectively and expressed in language, constituent elements of social reality. Therefore, we sought to understand the impact of digital culture in the contemporary world, in everyday life and reading as a cultural practice, by knowing the contexts of social relations in social reality. The daily was considered as leverage the knowledge and theoretical and methodological route. We conducted a case study on a project developed in cyberspace, in a distance learning platform: the "Literary Virtual Itineraries: Guimarães Rosa". Through a virtual ethnography and a phenomenological approach, analyzed the social interactions of the participants understood as subjective meanings of social action and a relevant reference of the sociology of everyday life. As a universal manifestation of all men, literature is much closer to the sociological and analyzed experiment constituted a powerful source of cultural repertoire expansion. It proved to be an important gathering of information and communication technologies, in cyberspace, with the changes of reading as a cultural practice, and literature, enabling an understanding of the social context of digital culture and innovate in sociological do, as an intellectual craft
A cultura digital - forjada pela revolução informacional dos anos 60 pelo advento das novas tecnologias da informação e comunicação, principalmente do computador e da internet - vem se constituindo neste século num processo social de longa duração não planejado, inaugurando um novo espaço social e cultural: o ciberespaço. O mundo se tornou cultura, uma cultura-mundo, em que poder dos fluxos é mais importante que os fluxos de poder, numa sociedade informacional e global. Nesta sociedade em transformação, o processo de tecnização, cuja técnica é uma constante antropológica, as noções de indivíduo, espécie, sociedade e cultura, precisam ser (re)conectadas para se compreender as novas maneiras de pensar, agir e sentir neste novo contexto social. Dentre as diversas práticas culturais cotidianas a leitura, é umas das mais importantes e se constitui como uma realidade com significados compartilhados intersubjetivamente e expressos na linguagem, elementos constitutivos da realidade social. Por isso, buscou-se, entender as consequências da cultura digital no mundo contemporâneo, no cotidiano e na leitura como prática cultural, conhecendo-se os contextos das relações sociais no real social. O cotidiano foi considerado como uma alavanca do conhecimento e um percurso teórico-metodológico. Realizou-se um estudo de caso, em um projeto desenvolvido no ciberespaço, em uma plataforma de ensino a distância: os Itinerários Literários Virtuais: Guimarães Rosa . Por meio de uma etnografia virtual e de uma abordagem fenomenológica, analisaram-se as interações sociais dos participantes, compreendidas como significados subjetivos da ação social e um referencial relevante da Sociologia da vida cotidiana. Como uma manifestação universal de todos os homens, a literatura se aproxima muito mais do fazer sociológico e o experimento analisado se constituiu numa fonte potente de ampliação de repertório cultural. Revelou-se um importante encontro das tecnologias de informação e comunicação, no ciberespaço, com as mudanças da leitura, como prática cultural, e da literatura, possibilitando uma compreensão do contexto social da cultura digital e um inovar no fazer sociológico, como artesanato intelectual

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SANTOS, Jailze de Oliveira. "Usos e significados da escrita ‘fabricados’ no cenário cotidiano de uma escola do Sertão do Pajeú (PE): lendo e escrevendo entre veredas, serras e mandacarus." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2015. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/16032.

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O presente trabalho tem como linha temática os usos e os significados das práticas de leitura e escrita ocorridas em uma escola do campo, no município de Serra Talhada (PE), e se alinha à concepção de letramento sancionada por teóricos dos Novos Estudos do Letramento (NEL), os quais compreendem serem as práticas de letramento permeadas de crenças, valores, atitudes e ideologias individuais e sociais e que são marcadas por tempo e espaço específicos. Para desenvolver o presente trabalho, elegemos, como foco de atenção, uma escola situada no município de Serra Talhada (PE), Brasil, e como lócus de observação, os ambientes de sala de aula de uma turma de 5º ano, bem como os espaços externos a essa sala. Nosso arcabouço teórico fundamenta as discussões centrais de nossa tese, que giram em torno das práticas de leitura e escrita; da educação do campo; e do estudo do cotidiano. Por considerarmos que as práticas cotidianas são historicamente “construídas” a partir da união de muitos fatores e por entendermos que diferentes ambientes refletem diferentes realidades, estabelecemos como objetivo geral da pesquisa conhecer e analisar o cotidiano dessa escola no que diz respeito aos eventos e às práticas de letramento vivenciados pela comunidade escolar. Assim, pretendemos identificar e analisar as ações e os usos que giram em torno da escrita e da leitura, tendo como pressuposto o fato de que diferentes sujeitos desenvolvem diferentes práticas. Realizamos um estudo qualitativo, com princípios etnográficos, para podermos, de fato, analisar o processo de construção das práticas de leitura e escrita e suas invenções, de modo a evidenciar suas particularidades. Optamos por instrumentos de pesquisa que permitissem descrever e entender os microcontextos em que se desenvolveram as práticas de letramento focalizadas. Para gerar os dados indispensáveis ao prosseguimento da pesquisa, utilizamos como instrumentos: a observação - enquanto técnica principal de investigação; entrevistas semiestruturadas - com a equipe gestora da instituição, pais de alunos e uma professora da escola, e questionários - aplicados aos pais dos alunos e aos alunos da escola. Nossos resultados apontam que no cotidiano da escola pesquisada há vários momentos nos quais é possível perceber atitudes e discursos transformados, ou melhor, “construídos” de acordo com o contexto presente e com as necessidades da situação. Esse movimento nos permitiu olhar para as singularidades, já que práticas cotidianas revelam maneiras de fazer, construções e readaptações e nos dão indícios a respeito dos usos e significados da língua escrita naquele contexto. Concluímos que a escrita é (re) significada e (re)adaptada às diferentes conjunturas do cotidiano escolar, o qual apresenta, algumas vezes, práticas que se aproximam a aspectos do letramento ideológico e, outras vezes, a aspectos do modelo autônomo do letramento. Acreditamos que esta pesquisa possa contribuir para consolidar as metas propostas para a educação do campo, a fim de que este seja um espaço de produção de cultura e de conhecimento. Um lugar onde a heterogeneidade cultural promova a qualidade da educacional, participação efetiva da comunidade e ampliação das experiências de letramento na busca de um exercício efetivo da cidadania.
The present work has as the main theme the uses and meanings of the practices of reading and writing in a field school in the district of Serra Talhada (PE), and aligns with the literacy conception sanctioned for the New Literacy Studies theorists (NEL), that understand literacy practices are permeated of beliefs, values, attitudes and individual and social ideologies beyond being signed by time and space. To develop this work, we have chosen, as a focus of attention, a school in Serra Talhada district (PE), and as a locus of observation, classroom environments of a fifth-grade class, as well as the external spaces to this room. Our theoretical framework supports the central discussions of our thesis: reading and writing practices, the field education and the study of everyday life. For believing that the daily practices are "built" from the union of many factors and for understanding that different environments reflect different realities, we established as a general objective of the research to know and to analyze the everyday life of this school with regard to events and literacy practices experienced by the school community. So, we intend to identify and analyze the actions and uses that involve writing and reading, starting from the agreement that different individuals develop different practices. We conducted a qualitative study, with ethnographic principles, so that we can, in fact, analyze the process of construction of the reading and writing practices creations, in order to highlight their particularities. We chose research instruments to describe and understand the micro contexts where the focused literacy practices were developed. So, we intended to identify and analyze the actions and uses that involve writing and reading, starting from the agreement that different individuals develop different practices. We conducted a qualitative study, with ethnographic principles, so that we could, in fact, analyze the process of construction of the reading and writing practices creations, in order to highlight their particularities. We choose research instruments to describe and understand the micro contexts where the focused literacy practices were developed. To generate the data to the continuation of the research, we used as instruments: observation - while main research technique; semi-structured interviews with the team manager of the institution, students' parents and a school teacher, and a questionnaire applied to parents of pupils and students of the school. Our results point out that in the everyday life of the focused school there are several moments in which it is possible to understand transformed attitudes and discourses, or better, "built" according to the present context and with the demands of the situation. This movement allowed us to look at the singularities, since daily practices reveal ways to make constructions and usages and give us clues about the uses and meanings of the language written in that context. We concluded that the writing is (re) signified to and (re) adapted to the different situations of everyday life, which presents, sometimes approaches to the practical aspects of the ideological literacy and, sometimes, to the aspects of the autonomous model of literacy. We believe that this research will help to consolidate the goals proposed for the education, making the school a place where cultural diversity promotes educational quality, effective participation of the community and expansion of literacy experiences in the search for an effective exercise of citizenship.

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Giraldo, Cadavid Diana. "L'apprentissage des jeunes adultes colombiens dans leur pratiques quotidiennes sur le web." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LYO20047.

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Ce travail doctoral vise à comprendre les pratiques quotidiennes des jeunes adultes sur le Web en relation avec leur apprentissage au travers des dispositifs numériques. Le contexte étudié est la Colombie, un pays où l’insertion d’Internet dans la vie quotidienne est un fait relativement récent, mais où les jeunes constituent le plus grand groupe d’utilisateurs. Nous nous intéressons particulièrement aux jeunes de 19 à 25 ans, étudiants de premier cycle et issus des classes moyennes dans des milieux urbains. Dans une perspective communicationnelle, nous proposons une analyse de leur apprentissage en tant que processus socialement et culturellement ancré et indissociable de leur construction identitaire. D’abord, nous nous interrogeons sur les sphères de socialisation, les dispositifs sociotechniques, les usages, les pratiques sociales et les valeurs culturelles impliqués. C’est ainsi que nous examinons les pratiques numériques des jeunes telles qu’ils les vivent et perçoivent au quotidien. L’analyse se concentre également sur leurs pratiques de production en ligne, comme l’écriture de blogs ou le partage sur les réseaux socionumériques, ainsi que sur leurs pratiques de consommation culturelle sur le Web. Nous soulignons la posture active qu’ils adoptent pour faire face à l’abondance, la diversification, l’interpénétration et la mutation constante de l’offre technique et médiatique. Enfin, nous examinons les compétences acquises et développées par les jeunes. Nous explorons la manière dont ils sont confrontés à gérer leur propre parcours d’apprentissage et à développer une attitude réflexive à propos de leurs usages du Web. Inscrit en sciences de l’information et de la communication, ce travail souhaite ainsi contribuer à une meilleure compréhension de la manière dont les dispositifs numériques permettent aux jeunes d’acquérir de nouveaux rôles sociaux et, en conséquence, de construire un nouveau rapport au savoir et à la culture
This doctoral thesis aims to understand the daily Web practices of young adults, in relation to their learning through digital resources and tools. The context of this study is Colombia, a country where the integration of Internet in everyday life is a relatively recent phenomenon, but where youth are the largest group of users. We are particularly interested in young people between 19 to 25 years of age, undergraduate students and from middle classes in urban areas. From a communicational perspective, we propose an analysis of their learning as a process which is socially and culturally rooted and inseparable from their identity construction. First, we inquire about the spheres of socialization, the technologies, the usages, the social practices and the cultural values involved. Thus, we consider their digital practices as experienced and perceived by them in everyday life. The analysis also focuses on their online production practices, such as writing blogs or sharing in digital networks, as well as their cultural consumption on the Web. We highlight the active behavior adopted by young people to respond to the abundance, the diversity, the convergence, and the constant change of the media and technological offer. Finally, we examine the skills acquired and developed by them. We explore how they manage their own learning process and develop a reflexive attitude about their Web usage. Thereby, this work seeks to contribute to a better understanding of how digital resources and tools allow young people to acquire new social roles and, therefore, to build a new relationship to knowledge and culture

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Mkaza, Linda Olive. "Exploring the potential of digital storytelling in the teaching of academic writing at a higher education institution in the Western Cape." university of western cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7231.

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Writing is an important skill throughout learners’ schooling trajectory because it is through writing that learners need to situate meaning and sense-making across the curriculum. Writing proficiency becomes even more important when learners access tertiary studies. Yet studies suggest that most students struggle with academic writing. Various authors suggest that writing has not been taught appropriately especially in secondary schooling contexts in South Africa and that writing becomes even more daunting for Second Language speakers of English when they reach tertiary education. There is abundant literature on students’ challenges with academic writing and ways to address academic writing challenges but the use of digital storytelling in relation to academic writing development is recent and distinctively underexplored in the literature.

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Mkaza, linda. "Exploring the potential of digital storytelling in the teaching of academic writing at a higher education institution in the Western Cape." Language Education in the Faculty of Education, University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8303.

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Writing is an important skill throughout learners’ schooling trajectory because it is through writing that learners need to situate meaning and sense-making across the curriculum. Writing proficiency becomes even more important when learners access tertiary studies. Yet studies suggest that most students struggle with academic writing. Various authors suggest that writing has not been taught appropriately especially in secondary schooling contexts in South Africa and that writing becomes even more daunting for Second Language speakers of English when they reach tertiary education. There is abundant literature on students’ challenges with academic writing and ways to address academic writing challenges but the use of digital storytelling in relation to academic writing development is recent and distinctively underexplored in the literature.

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Mkaza, Linda Olive. "Exploring the potential of digital storytelling in the teaching of academic writing at a higher education institution in the Western Cape." Thesis, University of The Western Cape, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7508.

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Writing is an important skill throughout learners’ schooling trajectory because it is through writing that learners need to situate meaning and sense-making across the curriculum. Writing proficiency becomes even more important when learners access tertiary studies. Yet studies suggest that most students struggle with academic writing. Various authors suggest that writing has not been taught appropriately especially in secondary schooling contexts in South Africa and that writing becomes even more daunting for Second Language speakers of English when they reach tertiary education. There is abundant literature on students’ challenges with academic writing and ways to address academic writing challenges but the use of digital storytelling in relation to academic writing development is recent and distinctively underexplored in the literature.

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Kist, Silvia de Oliveira. "Um laptop por criança : implicações para as práticas de leitura e escrita." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/15660.

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A presente dissertação refere-se a um estudo de caso sobre as práticas de leitura e escrita das crianças de 6 anos da classe de alfabetização de uma escola pública de Porto Alegre, imersas em um cotidiano digital, viabilizado pelo projeto Um Computador por Aluno (UCA). Seu objetivo foi investigar as práticas realizadas pelos estudantes, bem como as possibilidades e condições necessárias para que o computador fosse instrumento para inscrevê-los no mundo letrado, superando a relação estritamente escolar com a escrita, além de analisar as implicações para o processo de conceituação. Partiu-se do pressuposto de que a saturação tecnológica em uma escola na modalidade em que foi implantado o projeto UCA (cada criança com o seu laptop) implicaria mudanças nas práticas de leitura e de escrita realizadas pelos estudantes. Portanto, essas práticas dos alunos foram examinadas segundo duas unidades de análise: propostas da professora e as realizadas espontaneamente. Para cada unidade, foram construídos três eixos de categorias, relacionadas a letramento, alfabetização e fluência digital. O estudo de caso também apresentou uma terceira unidade, com a análise de cinco casos emblemáticos de alunos representativos à investigação. Conforme característica de um estudo de caso, a pesquisa teve início com uma proposição teórica, sustentada pelas experiências anteriores da investigadora e pelo referencial teórico utilizado, que foi gradativamente comparada com os dados encontrados no campo. Ao final do estudo, considerou-se que a proposição teórica deveria ser ajustada enfatizando a proposta pedagógica para crianças em processo inicial de aprendizagem da língua escrita. Conclui-se que a utilização cotidiana do laptop em rede permitirá às crianças a exploração da língua em situações reais, construindo um ambiente simbólico propício para a compreensão da função e do sentido da língua escrita (letramento) e, portanto, criará a necessidade de compreensão da sua estrutura (alfabetização), favorecendo o processo de conceituação, desde que incorporada a propostas e intervenções pedagógicas adequadas às necessidades e possibilidades da criança. Na classe analisada, algumas condições foram necessárias para que isso acontecesse. Entre elas, destacam-se o trabalho por projetos, a relação de um laptop por aluno em sala de aula, a conexão à Internet e o uso de um ambiente virtual.
This thesis refers to a case study about the practices of reading and writing of six-year-old children of a literacy class in a public elementary school of Porto Alegre city (RS/Brazil), immersed in a digital quotidian, made viable by One Computer per Student (UCA) project. Its objective was to investigate the practices carried out by students, as well as the possibilities and necessary conditions for the computer to be a tool to make them able to enter the “literate world”, overcoming the strictly scholar relationship with the writing, besides analysing the implications for the conceptualization process. It was presupposed that the technological saturation in a school in the modality in which UCA project was implemented (each child with his own laptop) would change the practices of reading and writing carried out by students. Therefore, these practices of the students were examined according to two units of analysis: practices proposed by the teacher and proposals carried out spontaneously. For each unit, three categories were built, related to literacy, alphabetization and digital fluency. The case study has also presented a third unit, with the analysis of five emblematic cases of students which were representative to the investigation. As typical in a case study, the research has begun with a theoretical proposition, based on previous experiences of the researcher and on the theoretical framework used, which was gradually compared to the data found in the field. At the end of the study, it was considered that the proposition should be adjusted emphasizing the pedagogic proposals for children in initial process of written language learning. It is concluded that daily use of laptops in a network will allow children to use language in real situations, building a symbolic environment propitious to the comprehension of the function and meaning of written language (literacy) and, thus, will create the necessity of understanding of its structure (alphabetization), facilitating the conceptualization process, as long as it is incorporated to appropriate proposals and pedagogic interventions to the needs and possibilities of the child. In the class which was analysed, some conditions were necessary for that to happen. The work by projects, the relation of one laptop per student in the classroom, the connection to the Internet and the use of a virtual learning environment are among them.

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Barnett, Karen Rae. "Transformation of communication practices : a case study of older adults' participation in the information society." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2002.

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The info1mation society marks a shift from the dominance of the industrial to the rise of the "informational" (Castells, 1996, p. 21 ). The effects of this shift on social arrangements generally have been greeted in diverse ways, ranging from the enthusiasm of Negroponte (1995) to the more cautious scepticism of Postman (1992). While recognised as an inevitable and ongoing process, the wider social imperatives for change have brought people and technology together in ways that are often highly problematic. Older people, as one group among others identified as experiencing the disadvantage in the information society, face challenges of adaptation to a new form of literacy and communicative practice. A large body of research is developing to investigate the needs of older people in the new information society, yet little of this focuses on the full complexity of relationships that exist between the wider institution of communication technologies and the management of these changes in everyday places. Everyday, mundane activities of older people, as they interface with the discourses and practices of the information society, are, therefore, prioritised in this qualitative study. A purposively structured case study applies Bourdieu's concepts of field and habitus (Bourdieu, 1990) in an ethnomethodological investigation. Levels of social phenomena representative of the field in the context of older people's experiences are assembled in the case study. Qualitative methods of data collection bring three elements of the field together. Firstly, discourses of the digital divide set the contextual scene for examining persuasions towards computer literacy for older people. Then observations in settings for older learners provide information about building computer competencies. In addition, interviews with geographically dispersed older people allow a range of users, from novices to experts, to contribute to the study. Data analysis based on the dramaturgical perspective of Goffman (1973a, 1973b) and the grammar of motives advocated by Burke (1969a) produce an interpretive ethnography in which older people's strategies and motives are revealed. The thesis finds that within the full set of relationships in the field of older people's use of ICT, a complex network of influences operates as discursive and interactive strategies. Motives implied in discourses of the digital divide direct attention towards the field of ICT and the settings of older people's active engagement with information and communication technologies. Within such settings a range of dispositions towards technology become obvious. These dispositions are critically important to the ways in which technology is integrated into everyday practices of individuals. In a field of opportunities and constraints computer technology is involved in creating particular communities of interest. Practices with technology promote self-esteem, secure networks of friendship, and connect the person within the home to the world beyond in real and virtual ways. The case study effectively describes the field of older people's engagement with computer technology as a microcosm of strategic everyday practices, a contingent set of experiences that enjoin older people with the process of change to an information society.

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Danielsson, Martin. "Digitala distinktioner : klass och kontinuitet i unga mäns vardagliga mediepraktiker." Doctoral thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-24372.

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This dissertation explores how social class matters in young men’s everyday relationship to digital media. The aim is to contribute to the existing knowledge about how young people incorporate digital media in their everyday lives by focusing on the structural premises of this process. It also presents an empirically grounded critique of popular ideas about young people as a “digital generation”, about the internet as a socially transformative force, and about class as an increasingly redundant category. The empirical material consists of qualitative interviews with 34 young men (16-19 years) from different class backgrounds, upper secondary schools and study programmes. Drawing on the conceptual tools of Pierre Bourdieu, three classes are constructed: the “cultural capital rich”, the “upwardly mobile”, and the “cultural capital poor”. The analysis shows that class, through the workings of habitus, structures the young men’s relationship to school and future aspirations. This also engenders class-distinctive ways of conceiving leisure and digital media use. Through their class habitus and taste, the young men tend to orient themselves and navigate in different ways in what they perceive as a space of digital goods and practices, endowed with different symbolic value in school and society. The “cultural capital rich” are drawn to-wards practices capable of yielding symbolic profit in the field of education and beyond, whereas the other classes gravitate towards the “illegitimate” digital culture but deal with this different ways. These findings indicate that there are social and cultural continuities at play within recent technological changes. They also expose the structural differences hidden by sweeping statements about young people as a “digital generation”. Finally, they show that class, contrary to popular beliefs about “the death of class”, still represents a pertinent analytical category.

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Micheau, Béatrice. "Faire avec les ordres documentaires : pratiques info-documentaires, culture écrite et travail scolaire chez des collégiens." Thesis, Lille 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LIL30039/document.

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Cette thèse a pour but de comprendre comment le « numérique » interroge à la fois les processus de légitimation et de délégitimation des pratiques info-documentaires et la manière dont ces processus s'inscrivent dans des objets, des lieux et des dispositifs. Ce travail prend place au sein de l'institution scolaire qui, implicitement ou explicitement, transmet et constitue des normes communes de ce que sont les « bonnes pratiques » de production, de circulation et de réception des textes, des documents et des savoirs. Il s'agit de faire une étude ethno-sémiotique, au sein des espaces de la classe et du CDI, dans deux collèges, des manières de rechercher, de lire, d'exploiter, de faire circuler et de produire des documents. Les dévoilements du numérique font réapparaître la nécessité de comprendre les pratiques et les compétences qui permettent de qualifier l'information, au-delà de méthodes canoniques forgées par les médiateurs (citer ses sources, respecter le droit d'auteur, ne pas copier-coller etc.), et au-delà des signes de la valeur, hérités du modèle de la bibliographie et de leur fétichisation dans la référence (éditeur, auteur, notice de catalogage etc.). Cette thèse repose sur une approche de la culture info-documentaire comme un composite, et sur la compréhension du numérique comme un phénomène social qui redéfinit les géographies et les temporalités de la production, circulation et réception des textes, des savoirs et de leurs documents. Cette approche permet alors de renouveler les questionnements sur la notion de valeur info-documentaire. Entreprise de dévoilement des normes de la culture écrite, ce travail de recherche montre l’enchâssement des pratiques, des objets et des valeurs à l’œuvre dans les processus info-communicationnels du partage des savoirs. Comprendre aujourd’hui les résistances des élèves aux discours du « bien se documenter » passe par une théorie de l’économie politique du document à l’ère numérique, et une approche anthropologique des pratiques ordinaires des textes et des documents, l’une se nourrissant de l’autre
This thesis aims to understand how the "digital" interrogates both the processes of legitimization and delegitimization of informationnal practices and how these processes are embedded in objects, places and devices. This work takes place within the school institution which transmits implicitly or explicitly, common standards for "good practices" of production, circulation and reception of texts, documents and knowledge. This is an ethno-semiotic study within the class and the library school’s spaces in two medium schools to observe and analyze the ways to search, read, operate, circulate and produce documents. The digital unveils the need to understand the practices and skills to qualify the information beyond canonical methods forged by mediators (citing sources, respect copyright, do not copy and paste etc.), and beyond signs of value inherited from the model of the bibliography and their fetishization in reference (publisher, author, cataloging record etc.). This thesis is based on an anthropological approach of information literacy and of digital as a social phenomenon that redefines geographies and temporalities of texts, knowledge and their documents. This approach allows to renew questions about the concept of document value. This research demonstrates the entrenchment of practices, objects and values at work in the communicational processes of knowledge sharing. Understanding today resistances of pupils to follow the rules of a « good research » requires a political theory of the economy of the document to the digital age and an anthropological approach of the common practices of texts and documents, one is feeding the other

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Muscat, Amanda. "Becoming a reader and writer in a digital-material world: An examination of young children’s digitally mediated literacy practices in everyday contexts." Thesis, 2022. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/44708/.

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The digital age has caused a fundamental transformation of literacy, and young children’s repertoires of literacy and meaning-making practices have undergone drastic changes, as have understandings of becoming literate in the complex digital landscapes (Kress 2010). Despite these changes, current early years literacy discourses remain stubbornly print-centric and fail to acknowledge contemporary children’s cultural expertise, hobbies, popular culture interests and material (physical) and immaterial (virtual) pursuits, which remain largely excluded from classroom literacy practice. This study provides an in-depth and rich description of the digital literacy practices of five children aged between 2 and 6 years in a situated ethnography of out-of-school literacy practices. Fieldwork material was gathered from participant observations, informal conversations and artefact collection and analysed to create an in-depth portrait of emergent contemporary practices in the home connected to contemporary understandings and theories of childhood literacy. Methodologically, I engaged with Deleuzoguattarian constructs such as the rhizome and assemblage theory in order to think differently and creatively about the research design and to embrace and follow the unexpected ways in which young children know/do/be/create literacies in their everyday life (Kuby & Rucker 2016). I engaged in a process of ‘thinking with theory’ (Jackson & Mazzei 2012) to plug in posthuman concepts with the fieldwork material in order to become attuned to the particular material-discursive practices occurring in the children’s home contexts and move away from hierarchies that privilege the human subject over the nonhuman (Barad, 2007). Rhizomapping was utilised as a diagrammatic form of representation to re/present the fieldwork material in a nonlinear and nonhierarchical manner, enabling a conceptual shift to frame the analyses, take more kinds of evidence into account and think more expansively about the fieldwork material. I argue that it is vital to engage with posthuman thinking when examining contemporary literacy practice due to the complex and unstable digital and material conditions of contemporary times. This thesis provides insight into the digitally mediated and shifting practices surrounding children’s reading, writing and meaning-making, and found the material, embodied, affective and spatial dimensions of literacy are substantial components of their early literacy experiences in their home contexts. The findings reveal that: 1) the children’s early literacy experiences were intertwined in complex ways with their intra-actions with everyday materials, digital devices and texts; 2) the everyday materials were important forces in producing literacy for the children and cultivated rich, creative and experimental literacy experiences; 3) the children seamlessly negotiated the online/offline spaces and operated within these hybrid spaces with ease, without differentiating between the virtual and actual. This research makes an important contribution to the task of reinterpreting contemporary literacy practice in the digital age in order to develop an informed early years literacy pedagogy of transformation for current times. Thus it argues that there is an urgent need to disrupt current literacy policy, practice and curriculum, and for early years practitioners to conceive of literacy in enlarged ways that are inclusive of the material, embodied, affective and spatial aspects of literacy.

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Campbell, Corinna Lynn. "The role of children's everyday cultures in schooled literacy practices." 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/30197.

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This self-study examines the role that children’s out-of school lives play in the “schooled literacy practices” of the Morning Meeting, a daily meeting in the teacher-researcher’s classroom. Morning Meeting in this Grade 2/3 classroom became a contestable “third space” where several professional tensions intersected for the teacher-researcher. The study explores questions of what “counts as literacy,” what role “popular culture” plays in school, and whose voices are privileged or marginalized in schooled literacy discussions. Data was collected over a 3-week period in the form of immediate and more distanced teacher reflections. A Bourdieusian theoretical framework, critical sociocultural literacy theory, third space theory, and artifactual critical literacy, offered the teacher-researcher lenses through which to analyze the meanings found in the everyday stories and artifacts young children share in the schooled literacy practice of Morning Meeting. The findings of this study inform and create new thinking about the entanglements of children’s out-of-school everyday culture with schooled literacy practices.

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Jackson, Lotoya. "Literacy, Standardization and the Digital Age: Exploring the Digital Literacy Practices of Students who Failed the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/42627.

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This phenomenological study explores the digitally-mediated literacy practices of a group of students who have been unsuccessful with the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test. More specifically, this study documents the out-of-school online literacy practices that are attractive to students who have failed to achieve dominant school literacy and explores the conditions that drive them. These practices are recognized as socially situated. Interviews were conducted at a Toronto school with 3 grade twelve students enrolled in the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course, an alternative method to fulfil the provincially mandated literacy graduation requirement. Three findings emerged: a) participants’ desire for “real” texts, defined as those that reflect their understanding of the world and connect them to the lives of others, b) the high value placed on visual and verbal semiotic resources and c) participants felt empowered by their online literacy practices but regarded in-school literacy as a site of resistance.

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Mensah, Daniel Martey Junior. "Digital literacy for Sustainable Forest Management practices among Individual Owners in Sweden." Thesis, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-454484.

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Digital literacy has been put forward as a tool that can potentially increase the speed towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A study conducted by Holmström (2020) has highlighted a fragmented digitalization of the Swedish Industrial Forest sector, but has not offered insights into digitalization of Individual Owners (IOs) – which is an important gap to fill as 50% of forest land areas in Sweden belong toIOs. This thesis represents a first attempt to document digitalization of these owners. The first objective aimedto document digital literacy among Individual Owners in Sweden – which was done by adapting an indicator proposed by Horrigan (2016), originally intended to measure Americans’ digital eagerness in adoptingtechnological means for online knowledge, to the Swedish IOs. The second purpose was to discuss the relationship between digital literacy and Sustainable Forest Management Practices (SFMP) among these owners – which was achieved through logistic models’ estimations on SFMP index, calculated based on IOs’ selfreported forest management practices. This study´s findings confirm a predominantly low digital literacy among IOs – with only 10% of them as digitally prepared. With respect to the relationship between digital literacy and the SFMP index, the results indicate a relationship between digital literacy and practices can be c ategorized as sustainable (the amalgamation of Intensive/Productivity, Conservation and Save management) only among IOsof age 66-76 years old. These owners have a higher education level, generally live-in rural areas and overall do not use their property for commercial purposes compared to other IOs. These findings underline the potential usefulness of digitalization to reach SDGs, and at the same time highlight that sustainability and digitalizationdo not necessarily come hand in hand.

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"Gatekeeping Practices of Participants in a Digital Media Literacy Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)." Doctoral diss., 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.49162.

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abstract: Long before “fake news” dominated the conversation within and about the media, media literacy advocates have championed the need for media literacy education that provides the tools for people to understand, analyze, and evaluate media messages. That the majority of U.S. adults now consume news on social media underscores the importance for students of all ages to be critical users of media. Furthermore, the affordances of social media to like, comment, and share news items within one’s network increases an individual’s responsibility to ascertain the veracity of news before using a social media megaphone to spread false information. Social media’s shareability can dictate how information spreads, increasing news consumers’ role as a gatekeeper of information and making media literacy education more important than ever. This research examines the media literacy practices that news consumers use to inform their gatekeeping decisions. Using a constant comparative coding method, the author conducted a qualitative analysis of hundreds of discussion board posts from adult participants in a digital media literacy Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to identify major themes and examine growth in participants’ sense of responsibility related to sharing news information, their feeling of empowerment to make informed decisions about the media messages they receive, and how the media literacy tools and techniques garnered from the MOOC have affected their daily media interactions. Findings emphasize the personal and contextual nature of media literacy, and that those factors must be addressed to ensure the success of a media literacy education program.
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Doctoral Dissertation Journalism and Mass Communication 2018

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