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Digital Resources in Science, Mathematics and Technology Teaching – How to Convert Them into Tools to Learn

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Technology and Innovation in Learning, Teaching and Education (TECH-EDU 2018)

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This paper deals with the problem of why many teachers take up little educational benefit from digital resources, despite their potential to help create learning environments with greater student engagement and stimulating intellectual challenges. A systematization of the main factors identified in the literature is made. Starting from a framework based on the idea of conceiving any educational resource as an artefact that can be used as a tool, and extending the concept of instrumental orchestration, guidelines are proposed for using digital resources as epistemic tools to learn and a research program to be implemented.

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National Funds through the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., finance this work under the UID/CED/00194/2013 project.

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  1. School of Sciences and Technologies, Universidade de Trás-Os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal

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  2. CIDTFF - Research Centre Didactics and Technology in Education of Trainers, Aveiro, Portugal

    J. Bernardino Lopes & Cecília Costa

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Lopes, J.B., Costa, C. (2019). Digital Resources in Science, Mathematics and Technology Teaching – How to Convert Them into Tools to Learn. In: Tsitouridou, M., A. Diniz, J., Mikropoulos, T. (eds) Technology and Innovation in Learning, Teaching and Education. TECH-EDU 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 993. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20954-4_18

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