Education and Tecnology

Code: PED15017L

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Education Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

Indústria, inovação e infraestruturas - Construir infraestrutura resiliente, promover a industrialização inclusiva e sustentável, e fomentar a inovação.

Reduzir as desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Learning Goals

Supporting a critical and well-founded view of the role of pedagogical integration of technologies in education;
Recognising the potential of technologies within the various domains foreseen in the Curricular Guidelines for Pre-School Education, for ICT in the 1st cycle and in the Student Profile;
Integrating emerging theories and models that support the transversal and pedagogically innovative integration of technologies in interdisciplinary projects;
Promoting the development of Digital Competence in its various areas by children;
Making justified decisions regarding the use of technologies, applications and digital resources;
Creating digital educational resources, namely games and interactive stories, using web tools and computer programming environments suitable for children (such as Scratch), which are suitable for future specific contexts;
Planning Learning Scenarios in Innovative Educational Environments.

Module 1: Digital Competence and Educational Digital Competence
1.1. The pedagogical integration of Technologies to support learning
1.2. European reference frameworks DigComp and DigCompEDU
1.3. Integration of Technologies within the Student Profile, the OCEPE and Curricular Guidelines for ICT in the 1st cycle.

Module 2: Pedagogical Innovation supported by technologies
2.1. Emerging theories and models related to technology integration
2.2. Scenario-Based Learning
2.3. Innovative Learning Environments

Module 3: Digital Educational Resources
3.1. Web Tools
3.2. Programming environments for children (such as Scratch)

Module 4: Planning innovative activities using Digital Technologies
4.1. Characteristics and principles of Learning Scenarios
4.2. Creating Learning Scenarios

Teaching Methods

The methodology in this Curricular Unit is intended to be theoretical-practical in nature, centered on students, where they assume an active and intervening role in the construction of their knowledge and that of their colleagues. Active learning strategies will be adopted, such as flipped learning, peer instruction and project-based learning, as well as the sharing and discussion of concepts and key ideas from different content, leading to the creation and sharing of diversified digital artifacts.
Therefore, students might carry out the following activities: content presentations; discussion of activity proposals; viewing videos; literature analysis and carrying out practical exercises to apply the knowledge acquired in each module; discussion and joint reflection on learning; use of an LMS environment to expand work done in the Curricular Unit.

Assessment

Continuous assessment
The continuous assessment regime aims to demonstrate competences developed throughout the learning process in the Curricular Unit. In this way, the evaluation of three elements is expected: participation in the activities developed in each of the modules (25%), the creation of a reflective portfolio with evidence of the learning developed and its connection to professional practice (35%) and the creation and discussion of a learning scenario (40%)
Final assessment
A written assessment test, which assesses knowledge of all the contents, in the theoretical component (40%). The technical and practical competences developed are assessed through the creation of a digital educational resource and an essay that describes its integration into a learning scenario (60%). The result of the assessment test results in the student's final classification.