Digital technologies and virtual learning environments - Active methodologies to promote digital education

• Autor(a) principal: Loureiro, Ana
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.15/2855
• topic: digital natives; OER; digital skills; lifelong learning; virtual learning environments

We live in a networked digital society, in an era of sharing and collaboration, made possible by the exponential growth of the World Wide Web, in particular Web 2.0 and Social Web. Digital technologies have been revolutionizing and (re-) shaping society. Education, as a key area of knowledge, cannot be oblivious to these changes, remaining stuck in old habits and methods of teaching and learning. In order to be effective in today’s digital society, citizens must have functional and critical thinking skills related to information, media and technology. For UNESCO, empowering citizens through information and media literacy is an important prerequisite for promoting equitable access to information and knowledge and building inclusive knowledge societies. This empowering can begin within the family, but also, and fundamentally, in a school context. Therefore, it is important that the School is able to respond to this challenge. In this paper, we will discuss about the importance of collaborative learning and how digital technologies and virtual learning environments contribute towards a digital society.