Focus on digital competence: teaching practice with virtual environment support

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n1p127

Abstract

This paper, a fragment of a doctorate research, aims at investigate possibilities for building collaborative approaches to / from the virtual environment, contributing to the development of teacher in training technological competence as well as the functionality of this space as a locus of relection among teachers in training and as an educational resource for the supervised training. Complexity heory guides the investigation, together with the concept of Digital Competence (KRUMSVIK, 2008, 2011). he study has a qualitative nature, adopting the
virtual ethnography principles (HINE, 2000). Data collected from online interactions among ten pre-service teachers in a course at FALE/UFMG, from the researcher’s notes and from a questionnaire show, among other things, that the virtual learning environment has the necessary basis for knowledge construction, creating good space for interaction, collective construction and relection.

Author Biography

Luciana de Oliveira Silva, Federal University of Minas Gerais

Luciana de Oliveira Silva is a professor at the School of Basic Education of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. She also is part of the Post-Graduate Latu Sensu course in Languages at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Her main research interest is learning materials focusing on the use of digital technologies in the English class.

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2016-01-26

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