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Education Pages Journal: Special edition Winter School
Education Pages Journal
-1st Winter School. Special edition-
As Cobo says, this publication represent Highly grateful for the global collaboration which supported the elaboration of all these articles you shall find here, we invite you to enjoy a good read and pose new questions that help us rethink learning and equity in a society that is changing and becoming globalized at an unprecedented (and sometimes disturbing) speed at the beginning total of five articles.”
ARTICLES
Abstract: The 2016 Facebook fake news scandal has highlighted the difficulty in determining the credibility and reliability of news. As a result, there have been calls for individuals to adopt a more informed and critical stance toward the sources of their news. This paper considers what might be involved in cultivating critical digital literacies in an era of post-truth, fake news and clickbait. Using the platform as the framework for study, the paper examines how the architecture, algorithms and network effects of the platform have changed the way news is created and disseminated, and how audiences are positioned to engage with it. This theoretical critique provides insight into the technical, political and social issues surrounding how individuals engage with online news.
Abstract: This article presents a comparative view of efforts and results that have been accomplished by the Wikipedia Education Program working with higher education institutions. Following the idea that “Wikipedia belongs to education”, teachers from all over the world have become interested in including Wikipedia in their courses. This paper analyses experiences and lessons from Wikimedia Argentina and Wikimedia Mexico, both chapters working with higher education institutions, in order to found similar challenges and solutions in the implementation of Wikipedia projects in academic spaces, also in the context of the Initiative for Regional Cooperation for Ibero-America (Iberocoop) that has proposed the creation of a chapter in the region, fostering collaboration and exchange of experiences.
Abstract: The student-teacher relationship is an important component of both students’ and teachers’ development. Today, technology-rich learning environments offer opportunities that might change these relationships. This paper presents findings from six studies of teacher-student relationships in the one-to-one computing classroom (and another study that refers to distance teaching). Taken together, those studies—that were carried out in Israel between 2014–2016 using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, with a combined N=238 teachers—highlight various improvements in student-teacher relationships. Overall, it is argued that one-to-one computing programs drive some important changes in teaching/learning strategies, and that these changes affect student-teacher relationships positively.
Abstract: This paper is based on a research project developed in Spain, where we explored how and what young people learn in virtual communities. Although the term virtual community has been broadly used to approach online social interactions, it has generated several academic debates. Nevertheless, it is a useful term to define a social network made up mostly of young people who share an interest and choose to interact online with others to discuss, exchange, show their creations to the world, and promote certain values. As researchers on Sociology and Education, we find this phenomenon especially intriguing. We wonder why young people engage in virtual communities, why they should spend so much time interacting with others online and what benefits they consider they have. Our hypothesis is that it has to do with a shared sense of belonging to a community and the possibilities young people find to create opportunities to learn with and from each other. The results of this article are based on the analysis of seven case studies conducted in virtual communities, and they address two main questions: what leads young people to participate in virtual communities and how is learning and social participation promoted through virtual communities.
REVIEW
The review presents the First EdTech Winter School: “Emerging trends and new horizons in the study of education and technology”, organized by Fundación Ceibal in 2017, and its contributions to the conceptualization of teacher training in Argentina and Uruguay. In this three-dimensional approach, the characteristics of teacher education in these countries are first described. Next, the provocation methodology, presented at the event by one of the invited researchers, is discussed and explained in detail. Finally, the possibilities and challenges that this methodology offers for the regional projects of educational technology inclusion are outlined.
