“Frustrating and exciting”: identity, computational thinking, and the teacher in continuing education

Technologies transformed the way of producing and acquiring knowledge. The pandemic proved that now they ought to be a part of the classroom. However, it is still needed that the teacher experiences using such technologies to, then, work with them. Starting from the notion that it is necessary to de...

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Autores: Klering, Emily Haubert, Trarbach , Mariana Vargas, Kersch, Dorotea Frank
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repositorio:Trabalhos em Lingüística Aplicada (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8664283
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/tla/article/view/8664283
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Continuing education
Digital literacy
Computational thinking
Formação continuada
Letramento digital
Pensamento computacional
Educación permanente
Alfabetización digital
Pensamiento computacional
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Sumario:Technologies transformed the way of producing and acquiring knowledge. The pandemic proved that now they ought to be a part of the classroom. However, it is still needed that the teacher experiences using such technologies to, then, work with them. Starting from the notion that it is necessary to develop new abilities in order to be digitally literate (KARCHMER-KLEIN; SHINAS, 2012), and considering that identities are shaped by experience (IVANIC, 1998), this paper aims to understand how five students of a Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics, already experienced teachers, while writing, build their identities and reflect upon technology’s relation with the school. Therefore, it was analyzed the journals produced during a class focused on digital literacy, in which the students had to read the theory and experiment with a digital tool. It is concluded that curiosity is one of the key elements to developing digital literacy and computational thinking, and that it is through attempting that the educator improves their knowledge and acquires confidence to incorporate new digital tools in the classroom.