Practices with Digital Technologies in Educational Work

Code:

DE241

Acronym:

PTDAE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Social Studies/Public Policies / Educational Sciences

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Master Degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MCED	16	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	49	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The digitalisation of society and social relations has a particular impact on the field of education, with emphasis on the education of children and young people in school and family contexts, but also in the field of adult education and life, the accompaniment of senior citizens and the emancipation of disadvantaged or subordinated social groups. The curricular unit aims to contribute to the awareness of emerging transformations and the challenges arising from them, and to support the development of practices and resources for digital mediation in different educational contexts

Learning outcomes and competences

Learning outcomes:

Identify social changes arising from the development and use of digital technologies

Problematise digital technologies and innovation in education

Propose practices of education and training mediated by digital technologies

Develop digital educational resources



Skills:

Monitoring education and training policies and projects based on digital platforms or technologies

Developing research in the field of professional and personal development digital platforms or technologies

Planning and development of digital educational resources

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Not applicable

Program

Social transformations and challenges of the digital era
-Brief historical overview
-Demands and opportunities of digital transformation: digitalization and humanization
Educational challenges arising from the widespread use of digital technologies: management, organization of work; school and family educational practices
Digital technologies and personal and professional development
Study and analysis of experiences and projects
Digital educational resources

Mandatory literature

Comissão Europeia; Plano de Ação para a Educação Digital, online, 2021
Council of Europe ; Handbook of Digital Citizenship Education: Being online, Well-being online, Rights Online, Council of Europe Publishing, 2019
Monteiro, A. & Leite, C.; Inclusive digital online environments as a device for pedagogic differentiation: a taxonomy proposal, E-learning and knowledge Society, 12(4), 25-37, 2016
Monteiro, A., Leite, C. & Barros, R. (Orgs.); Youth media literacy promising practices handbook, online, 2021
Ferreira, P., Azevedo, C., Menezes, I.; The developmental quality of participation experiences: Beyond the rhetoric that “participation is always good!”. , Journal of Adolescence, 35, 599–610, 2012

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lecture
Debate
Group work
Research
Laboratory work

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Trabalho laboratorial	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	95,00
Frequência das aulas	49,00
Trabalho laboratorial	18,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

The student obtains the frequency of the curricular unit if, having been regularly enrolled, he/she does not exceed the limit number of absences corresponding to 25% of the scheduled classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

The evaluation includes different components. The individual work 40% and the group work, product of the laboratorial practice has a weight of 60% in the final evaluation.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students that by law are excused from class attendance should contact the uni teachers during the first 2 weeks of the semester to define the necessary forms of support and attendance.

Classification improvement

The improvement of the final classification may be achieved through the repetition of some components when possible or through an alternative plan to be negotiated with the teacher.

Observations

Not applicable