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Author Junqueira, Eduardo S

Title New Literacies, New Agencies? : a Brazilian Perspective on Mindsets, Digital Practices and Tools for Social Action In and Out of School
Published New York : Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2013

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Description 1 online resource (196 pages)
Series New literacies and digital epistemologies ; volume 64
New literacies and digital epistemologies ; v. 64.
Contents Cover; Contents; Chapter 1. New Literacies in the Context of Brazilian Historical Social-economic Inequality: Past, Present, and Future Trends Eduardo S. Junqueira & Marcelo El Khouri Buzato 1; Chapter 2. Mapping Flows of Agency in New Literacies: Self and Social Structure in a Post-social World Marcelo El Khouri Buzato 22; Chapter 3. Peer-based Work and Agency in the School Computer Lab: Learning New Literacies as a Collective Practice Eduardo S. Junqueira 50; Chapter 4. Distributed Agency in Avatar-based Learning Vilson J. Leffa 69
Chapter 5. If You Can't Play, Don't Come Down to the Playground! Agency in Brazilian Humor: Parody and Verb-visual Remix Luiz Fernando Gomes 88Chapter 6. Agency, Collaborative Writing, and ICTs: A Brief Analysis of Three Cases of Textual ProductionUsing Google Docs Ana Elisa Ribeiro & Carla Viana Coscarelli 105; Chapter 7. The Development of Agency in a New Literacies Proposal for Teacher Education in Brazil Walkyria Monte Mór 126; Chapter 8. Interactivity, Agency, and Mediation in 3D Virtual Worlds Edméa Oliveira dos Santos & Tatiana Stofella Sodré Rossini 147
Chapter 9. Afterword: Brazil Meets Brasil: Being, Communicating, and Learning in Times of Change Marcelo El Khouri Buzato & Eduardo S. Junqueira 165Contributors 175; Index 179
Summary From students as teachers' pets to teachers as Second Life avatars, or from being ridiculed for not knowing your syntax to ridiculing others through multimodal remixing, something has changed in the way people are acting and being acted upon through literacies. From parallel text processing ""under a cloud"" to text-as-process enhanced by cloud computing, or from one laptop per child to several laptops left behind by children in creative spoken interaction, learners and educators' actions through and around texts and technologies provide quite a telling example of such changes. From writing as
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Subject Education -- Brazil
Educational technology -- Brazil
Equality -- Brazil
EDUCATION -- Essays.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Reference.
Education
Educational technology
Equality
Brazil
Form Electronic book
Author Buzato, Marcelo E. K
ISBN 9781453911563
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9781306054669
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