Subject: Technology and Innovation in Education

Scientific Area:

Education

Workload:

43 Hours

Number of ECTS:

3 ECTS

Language:

Portuguese

Overall objectives:

a) Discuss the importance of incorporating ICT in Education and its relationship with innovation in Education;

b) Identify essential aspects of social interaction for the acquisition, construction and sharing of knowledge, using ICT;

c) Evaluate / adapt different technological resources to the needs of educational contexts;

d) Plan learning devices using ICT.

Syllabus:

1 - The incorporation of ICT in the school as a tool for change;

1.1 - The incorporation of new technologies in schools and the role they can play in innovation in education;

1.2 - The concept of pedagogical innovation;

2 - ICT and constructivism / constructionism (Piaget and Papert);

2.1 - ICT at the service of a pedagogical intervention line based on constructivist/constructionist premises;

2.2 - The role of the social environment and interaction in the acquisition, construction and sharing of knowledge;

3 - Technology as a learning tool;

3.1 - Mobile devices: laptops, smartphones, mobile phones to educational software: relevance and suitability for educational contexts;

3.2 - The educational potential of software/freeware, support for new contexts and new learning opportunities;

3.3 - The Internet as a privileged means of collecting information, researching educational software, solving problems and exchanging experiences;

3.4 - Seymour Papert's contributions;

4 - ICT and collaborative learning;

4.1 Function nature and agents of the learning community;

4.2 - The teacher's role as an organizer of learning contexts and as a metacognitive agent;

4.3 - The teacher as an element of transformation of traditional school routines;

5 - ICT and the Curriculum;

5.1 - The concept of pedagogical device;

5.2 - The construction of pedagogical devices with ICT: curricular spaces and times;

5.3 - Educational work with ICT and curriculum construction.

Literature/Sources:

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Christensen, C., Horn, M. & Johnson, C. (2011) Disrupting Class - How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. New York: McGraw-Hill.

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Fino, C. (2001). Vygotsky e a Zona de Desenvolvimento Proximal (ZDP): três implicações pedagógicas. Revista Portuguesa de Educação, Vol. 14, 273-291.

Fino, C. (2006). Inovação e Invariante (Cultural). In Atas do VII Colóquio sobre Questões Curriculares. Braga: Universidade do Minho. 

Fino, C. (2007). O Futuro da Escola do Passado. In A Escola sob Suspeita (pp. 31-44). Porto: Asa. 

Fino, C. (2011). Investigação e inovação (em educação). In Pesquisar para mudar (a educação) (pp. 29-48). Funchal: Universidade da Madeira CIE-UMa. 

Fino, C. & Sousa, J. M. (2003). As TIC redesenhando as fronteiras do currículo. Revista Galego-Portuguesa de Psicoloxia e EducaciónVol. 10, 8, 2051-2063.

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Jonassen, D. (2007). Computadores, Ferramentas Cognitivas: Desenvolver o pensamento critico nas escolas. Porto: Porto Editora.

Jonassen, D. (2008) Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology - Second Edition. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Jonassen, D. (2011) Learning to Solve Problems A Handbook for Designing Problem-Solving Learning Environments.New York: Routledge.

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Matos, J. F. (2005). Aprendizagem como participação em comunidades de prática mediadas pelas TIC. Paper presented at the CHALLENGES 2005 - IV Conferência Internacional de Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação na Educação.

McDermott R., Snyder W. & Wenger E. (2002). Cultivating Communities of Practice. Boston: Harvard  Business School Press.

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Papert, S. (1993) The children´s machine: Rethinking schools in the age of computer. New York: Basic Books.

Papert, S. (1997). A família em rede. Edição portuguesa. Lisboa: Relógio d? Água.

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Silva, D. (2001). As Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação nas reformas educativas em Portugal. Revista Portuguesa de Educação, Vol. 14 (2), 111-153. 

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Sousa, J. M & Fino, C. (2001). As TIC abrindo caminho a um novo paradigma educacional. In Atas do VI Congresso Galaico-Português de Psicopedagogia (pp. 371-381). Braga: Universidade do Minho.

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Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of Practice: learning, meaning and identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Assesssment methods and criteria:

Assessment is continuous in nature and assumes attendance of 75% of classes taught and will focus on monitoring learning processes, but also checking acquired knowledge, in accordance with established objectives.
In this curricular unit, approval implies obtaining a positive classification (10/20), resulting from the arithmetic average of the different evaluative elements, according to the weighting established for each of them.
Students are expected to have autonomy and participation in completing the discipline's complex theoretical puzzle. ICT will be used as support.
In the theoretical-practical component, students will develop activities leading to the construction of a weblog, containing the themes of the UC, with a reflective character and systematization of these contents. At the end of the semester (May 9th) the weblogs and respective publications will be presented, with a weighting of 40% (25% written component of the weblog and 15% presentation). The minimum passing grade for this evaluation element is 9.5. The working groups should include 3 elements. There should be a weekly publication on the weblog.
The weblog should include an individual reflection, based on the emerging theoretical framework of the authors listed in the UC bibliography. It will have a weight in the evaluation of 20%. This individual reflection can be replaced by the construction of a game and subsequent application in the internship that will be developed following the UC of IPP VI.
Individual written test (frequency): as a form of critical and reflective assessment of the contents developed in class with a weight of 40% of the final grade. The minimum grade for approval in this evaluation element is 9.5 points, to be carried out on May 16, 2023.