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- Title
BLOGGING: AGENCY, MINDSET AND LITERACY.
- Authors
de Oliveira e Paiva, Vera Lucia Menezes; Fidelis Braga, Junia de Carvalho
- Abstract
In this article, we discuss the concepts of agency, mindset and literacy in order to investigate, in the light of complexity theory, three groups of teachers and their blogging practices. Our aim was to check if formal teaching of digital technologies has 'disturbed' the traditional literacy behavior of our participants and changed their mindsets. We visited their blogs to check if they went on blogging after the end of the course and emailed them a questionnaire to learn about their experiences with this new literacy and to collect their opinions about blogging. We realized that just a few blogs were relatively active and that the majority of the teachers had not incorporated this new literacy into their teaching practices. Nevertheless, the results do not allow us to state that those teachers have not changed their mindsets because they might have migrated to other digital contexts.
- Subjects
ONLINE comments; BLOGS; LITERACY; AGENCY theory; COMPLEXITY (Philosophy); DIGITAL technology; THOUGHT &; thinking; TEACHING
- Publication
Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English & Cultural Studies, 2014, Issue 66, p75
- ISSN
0101-4846
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5007/2175-8026.2014n66p75