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- Collaborative uses of ICT in education: Practices and representations of preservice elementary school teachersPublication . Ferreira, Eduarda; Silva, Maria João; Valente, BianorSchools and teachers have a key role to bridge the gap between the digital practices of everyday life and school, helping students to develop digital literacies. In this paper, we will explore the practices and representations of ICT in education of preservice elementary school teachers and kindergarten educators of a higher education institution in Lisbon and their expectations regarding the future use of collaborative technology for learning purposes. The research is based on an online survey and a group meeting on the expectations regarding the future use of collaborative technology for learning purposes. The research explores the importance and the influence of teachers' training in the future adoption of ICT in education. Preservice elementary teachers and kindergarten educators clearly identified the advantages of using ICT in education, in particular the potentialities to improve the educational process. Using ICT for collaborative work in the classroom was considered a good support for learning new topics and to motivate students.
- Embodied education: Senses, emotions, and technologyPublication . Silva, Maria João; Ferreira, Eduarda; Andrade, Vania; Nunes, Olinda; Carvalho, Maria da LuzThe theme of this paper is the importance of educational embodied approaches, aiming at developing children's sensory awareness, emotional competences and abstract thinking. The case studies presented in this paper explored the joint use of human senses and electronic sensors in embodied educational activities, related to mathematics and science education, situated in schools and in the schools' neighbourhood, and grounded in children's everyday practices. In all the three case studies, the children enhanced sensory and emotional awareness, body literacy and developed abstract thinking, grounded on their own embodied experiences.
- Embodied education: Senses, emotions, and technologyPublication . Silva, Maria João; Ferreira, Eduarda; Andrade, Vania; Nunes, Olinda; Carvalho, Maria da LuzThe theme of this paper is the importance of educational embodied approaches, aiming at developing children's sensory awareness, emotional competences and abstract thinking. The case studies presented in this paper explored the joint use of human senses and electronic sensors in embodied educational activities, related to mathematics and science education, situated in schools and in the schools' neighbourhood, and grounded in children's everyday practices. In all the three case studies, the children enhanced sensory and emotional awareness, body literacy and developed abstract thinking, grounded on their own embodied experiences.