a web 2.0 journal to improve digital communicative and methodological skills of disadvantaged youth...

Programa FRIDA INFORME DE AVANCE

Identificación del Proyecto

Título: A Web 2.0 Journal to Improve Digital Communicative and

Methodological Skills of Disadvantaged Youth in Brasilia No. A000

Organización

Proponente

CEFE – Associação Centro Formativo Educativo, Brasilia

Jefe de Proyecto Luciana Almeida dos Santos

Período Informado Mes/ año

02.2010

Sitio Web http://projetofrida.com/cefe/

Dirección del

Proyecto

Isabella Rega

Investigadores

participantes

Luca Botturi

Milena Nunes

Contenido

1. Actividades Realizadas (Resumen de los avances) ................................................. 3

2. Objetivo general ....................................................................................................... 4

3. Objetivos específicos: .............................................................................................. 4

4. Avance de Actividades al mes/año (presente informe) ............................................ 5

5. Indicadores de Avance: Verificación de Resultados ............................................... 6

6. Participación efectiva de todos los intervinientes en el proyecto. ........................... 7

7. Reuniones de Coordinación ..................................................................................... 7

8. Actividades de Difusión ........................................................................................... 7

9. Anexos ..................................................................................................................... 8

1. Actividades Realizadas (Resumen de los avances)

This project aimed at investigating how web 2.0 technologies can be used to improve

methodological and communicative skills in young people attending public

disadvantaged schools in Brazil. The project duration is of 12 months, during which a

pilot experience of integrating web 2.0 technologies in the curriculum of a study support

centre in the neighbourhood of Brasilia has been carried on. The project was run at CEFE

– Centro Educativo e Formativo, a centre serving a large disadvantage area in Brasilia,

helping high school students to achieve better academic results.

As a result of the project, CEFE students gained the technological, methodological and

communicative key skills to enter the knowledge society, both in the university and in the

job market.

The CEFE - Associação Centro Formativo Educativo (Brasilia) is an educational centre

for youth living in disadvantaged conditions, aiming at supporting teens in their study

path in order to enabling them to access higher education institutions or qualified job

places. The project will take place in the suburbs area of Brasilia, in Brazil, in an area

called Nucleo Bandeirante, where CEFE is placed.

CEFE teachers highlighted three main gaps within students attending public schools in

the Nucleo Bandeirante and in the surrounding neighborhoods (Candangolandia,

Samambaia, Riacho Fundo, Cruzeiro, and Ceilandia and hindering opportunities of a

better future:

Lack of methodological skills: students did not acquire necessary

methodological skills to face the study effort required in universities, they are not

enough able to self-organize they study agenda and to work in teams to achieve

given objectives;

Lack of communicative skills: students did not gain a good level of knowledge

of Portuguese, to be able to work in offices and to study at university.

Furthermore, they do not have sufficient knowledge of means of expressions such

as photography or multimedia;

Lack of digital skills: students do not have enough digital competences to

fruitfully use them in their study tasks at high school, nor to be able to work in the

knowledge society in the future.

The following problem tree highlights causes and effects linked to the aforementioned

lack of skills, in grey are highlighted the elements affected by this project:

Lack of Communicative, Methodologicaland Technological Skills

School Drop-outs and

Failures

University Entrance

Exam Failures

Job Search Failures

Lack of Technological

Training at School

Lack of Teacher Training

in the use of digital

technologies for

educational purposes

Lack of technology

enchanced educational

activities at school

Lack of technological

laboratories at school

CAUSES

MAIN PROBLEM

EFFECTS

Low Quality Education in

Communicative and

Methodological

Techniques at School

Low Quality Teacher

Training in Communicative

and Methodological

Techniques

Too Many Students in a

Classroom

In the framework of these deep educational limits found among public school students

attending CEFE, this pilot project aimed at offering local youth the possibility to learn

new work and study methods and to better their expression skills through the use of ICTs

and, in particular, of web 2.0 tools.

The project wanted to investigate how the new generation of web technologies can be

used, not only as subjects to be taught within a digital literacy training program, but also

as tools to foster the acquisition of communicative and methodological skills.

The idea of the project was to develop a web 2.0 journal, through which students, while

being involved in a playful and challenging activity, are able to (1) approach digital

technologies (digital literacy gap); (2) learn how to edit written and depicted

communication formats (communicative skills gap); (3) acquire self-organization and

group work skills (methodological skills gap).

2. Objetivo general

Investigating how educational activities based on web 2.0 can improve methodological,

communicative and technological skills of teenagers living in disadvantaged conditions.

3. Objetivos específicos:

1. Increasing technological skills of disadvantaged teenagers attending CEFE

activities.

2. Increasing methodological skills of disadvantaged teenagers attending CEFE

activities through web 2.0 tools and group works

3. Increasing communicative skills of disadvantaged teenagers attending CEFE

activities through web 2.0 tools and group works

Fecha de inicio según propuesta inicial: 1/12/2008

Cuadro con plazos de ejecución programados:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

M1: Training and tutoring

M2: Web 2.0 Journal Publication

M3: Evaluation

Fecha de inicio real del proyecto: 01/01/2009

Objetivo específico 1 Increasing technological skills of disadvantaged

teenagers attending CEFE activities.

Objetivo específico 2 Increasing methodological skills of disadvantaged

teenagers attending CEFE activities through web 2.0

tools and group works

Objetivo específico 3 Increasing communicative skills of disadvantaged

teenagers attending CEFE activities through web 2.0

tools and group works

4. Avance de Actividades al mes/año (presente informe)

Activity Date Output

M1: workshop (teacher

training)

March 2009 - journal/blog planning (see

annex)

- list of participants (see annex)

- link to the blog developed

during the training:

http://projetofrida.wordpress.com/

M1: blog/journal design

and development

April 2009 http://projetofrida.com/cefe

http://projetofrida.com/creche/

M2: posts on the

blog/journal

May 2009 – December

2009

http://projetofrida.com/cefe

see annex: Blog Report

M3: Evaluation session February 2010 See annex: Evaluation Session

Report

Cuadros por actividades

Actividades para el cumplimiento del

Objetivo Específico Nº 1, 2 and 3 Plazo de

ejecución

planificado

Plazo de

ejecución

realizado

Mes/Año Mes/Año

M1: Training on the design of a web 2.0 journal,

editorial planning and tutoring

12.08

(workshop) +

ongoing tutoring

02-03.09

(workshop) +

ongoing tutoring

M2: Web 2.0 Journal Publication 01.09-09.09 05.09-11.09

M3: Evaluation 11-12.09 02.10

5. Indicadores de Avance: Verificación de Resultados

Two website have been created:



The second website is the blog/journal developed by students and teachers of the

Associação Nossa Senhora Mãe dos Homens, an association working with children from

0 to 13 years, who participated to the workshop as well and decided to do a Project to

integrate technologies in their activities.

All the parteners in the Project agreed in allowing Associação Nossa Senhora Mãe dos

Homens to enter the Project: this does not imply any further cost for FRIDA, only a

increased impact of the Project itself.

Nº

Actividad

Nº

Resultado

Indicador Medio de Verificación

M1:

workshop

(teacher

training)

1. Two blogs created, materials

developed before and during the

workshop



journal/blog edirotiral

planning (see annex)

list of participants (see annex)

link to the blog developed

during the training:

http://projetofrida.wordpress.c

om/

technical manual

Evaluation plan

M2: posts

on the

blog/journa

l

1.

See the blog

See the annex Blog Report

See the blog:


blog access analysis

M3:

Evaluation

session

1 See the annex Evaluation Session

Report

- Focus group with CEFE

teachers and director

- Focus group with CEFE

pupils

- Questionnaire to CEFE

teachers and pupils

- Focus group with

CRECHE teachers and

director

- Focus group with

CRECHE pupils

(+drawing)

- Questionnaire to

CRECHE teachers

M0:

manageme

nt

1 The Project leader and the director

of the Project meet on skype every

two weeks.

Skype meetings

6. Participación efectiva de todos los intervinientes en el proyecto.

All participants actively participated to the Project. Furthermore educators of another

association, Associação Nossa Senhora Mãe dos Homens, participated to the training and

are setting up a blog/journal for their students. This is a big not foreseen institutional achievement because it strenghen the collaboration

between the two institutions and allowed an increased impact of the project itself,

doubling the students involved in the experience.

7. Reuniones de Coordinación

The Project leader and the director of the Project met on skype every two weeks to keep

the pace of the Project.

8. Actividades de Difusión To have an extensive overview of the diffusion that the blog had on the internet and the

target it reached, please see the annex (Blog Report). However, we anticipate here few

data:

Unique visitors: 492

Visits: 936

Countries from where the blog has been accessed: Brazil, Switzerland, Italy,

Portugal, Denmark, Belarus, United States, United Kingdom, France, Senegal

Within Brazil the blog has been visited from: Brasilia, Sao Paulo, Salvador, Rio

de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Goiania, Fortaleza, Belem

9. Anexos

- Evalution Session Report

- Blog Report

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ANNEX: EVALUATION SESSION REPORT

Programa FRIDA - A Web 2.0 Journal to Improve Digital Communicative

and Methodological Skills of Disadvantaged Youth in Brasilia

The evaluation session took place in February 2010 and involved the following instruments:

- CEFE:

o Focus group with CEFE teachers and director

o Focus group with CEFE pupils

o Questionnaire to CEFE teachers

- CRECHE:

o Focus group with CRECHE teachers and director

o Focus group with CRECHE pupils (based on a drawing session)

o Questionnaire to CRECHE teachers

CEFE and CRECHE teachers

Looking at the questionnaire results teachers positively consider the experience:

2

Teachers think that, in comparison to the previous year, students involved in the FRIDA

project improved in:

And they think that the FRIDA project allowed them to improved in:

3

Furthermore, their attitude towards technologies is the following:

4

Teachers think that the experience was useful and new, but they mentioned some difficulties,

such as technological ones, organizational ones, and involvement ones. They considered the

experience very important to start considering the computer and ICT in general as an

educational tool. They discover a new tool that can be use to support their didactic activities

day by day. Furthermore, they think that the past year and the FRIDA project helped them to

start reflecting on how to face difficulties and on how to better plan and design their classes.

Teachers found very useful the possibility to have an in depth evaluation of the project not

only focused on the developed activity but also aiming at finding ways of improvement and

continuation.

If looking at aspects to improve they regret the lack of interest of pupils, also caused by a

lack of planning and integration between moments in class and in the informatics lab and by

the lack of a support from the informatics teacher, who is more a technician than a person

interested in the teaching activity of the institution (both at CRECHE and at CEFE). Other

aspects regards the not complete confidence in the informatics tool and the poverty of the

equipment (computers are not up to date and internet is slow).

Teachers think that the difficult part was to create, to plan activities more then put them in

practice.

Teachers appreciated:

- the possibility they had to open a new range of possibility, of acquiring new knowledge

and skills, to be spent with their students

- the final results: posts and comments, they are sort of brave of the developed work

- the creativity of their students, and their interaction to work in groups

- the visibility given to the institution by the blog

Teachers suggested to spend more time in the planning of the activities and on managing the

integration of the blog in the class activities. Furthermore, they would like to have a better

access to internet, and to have refreshing courses on technological matters, also via

videoconference.

When they were asked to mention positive things happened during the activity, they

mentioned the relationship built among students and between students and themselves, the

happiness of the kids in seeing their work on the internet and their excitement in discovering

new things, and the interest showed in the project from less motivated teens.

About things to improved, they stated that students are distracted by the internet, lack of

adequate infrastructure (computers out of date and slow internet connection) and technical

problems

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Teachers agreed to go on with the development of the blog also for 2010, they focus on the

need of more technical and instructional support, in order to fully integrate the blog in the

institution activities, and working on it in groups of teachers.

Teachers started to be aware of the need of planning their classes and of managing the time of

each activity; furthermore, some of them, started using the blog as an instrument also in

other schools where they work. Other two aspects mentioned are the work in equipe, to be

able to plan blog activities and the use of creativity to design classes. They also mentioned

that they were able to get to know better their students as individual.

Everyone agreed that it is an activity to carry on also in 2010. Teachers think that the

experience gained during the last year now can be used and exploited during the next year.

CEFE – teachers:

The project is evaluated as an excellent experience, both from a professional and a personal

point of view; however teachers still perceive some technological difficulties and did not

perceived an effective support from the responsible at CEFE of the informatics lab, who

works as a technician more than a person involved in the didactic offer of the institution.

Teachers perceived that the informatics lab is not adequate to implement activities with

students: computers are out of date and internet is slow, this also hinder the interest of the

students.

Lack of time was another perceived problem, and also the need of learn better how to

organize time and classroom activities.

CRECHE – teachers:

The blog has been a good experience but also for CRECHE teachers there is the need to

better organize time management. Furthermore, the same problem we found at CEFE arose:

the informatics professor did not involve himself and did not support the teachers in the

project, he acts more as a technician than as a person involved in the educational activities of

the institution.

Pupils were very interested in the project and participated enthusiastically in the suggested

activities. The design and the implementation of the activities about the city of Samambaia

was very successful and creative.

The project gave to teachers and to students the possibility to gain a new vision of world,

students were able to gain new knowledge, and overall ICT has been considered as a good

tool to involve students.

Three things have been suggested:

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- To have an informatics professor more involved in the educational offer of the institution

- To introduce the blog in the informatics classes so that the teacher of informatics can

design the experience together with the other teachers

- To better integrate activities developed in class and in the informatics lab

- A nearer support person

And few openings have been stated for the work in 2010:

- To introduce the blog in the educational offer

- To work with the blog on the topic of reading/writing through fairy tales

- To work with more students of different ages

- To improve the participation of the informatics teacher

- To tackle more topics in the blog

According to the teachers involved in the blog project, the project helped them to discover

new possibilities of activities with students. Furthermore, it supported teachers to discover

new ICT tools by their own.

CEFE Students

Students like the blog experience, they considered to have learnt new things, such as the use

of the computer, the awareness of having writing difficulties, and the expression of ideas and

opinions.

They stated that they would like to go on using the blog as educational tool, since it is a

support to improve their knowledge and skills. They were happy to have learnt about specific

topics, such as ornithorhynchus, and that in another activity “Desafio” the ones who thought

to be more in trouble won the competition at the end.

Finally, the blog has been an occasion to pay more attention to CEFE as an institution.

CRECHE Students

Kids were very impressed by the school trip they did to get to know their city (Samambaia)

and to discover the origin of its name. They like the blog and the informatics lab very much.

The attached drawings, explained activities done by kids with the blog and how these

activities allow them to know more about their environment.

Final Remarks

Finally, we would like to sum up stressing some of the elements emerged from the evaluation

that we think are very important:

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- Teachers, especially at CEFE, and the direction understood the importance to plan

instructional activities: this is very important for offering high quality curriculum to

students. The FRIDA project has been the occasion to discover this crucial factor.

- The need of a better informatics lab, especially at CEFE. This problem has already been

solved, the company viaggiare.it donates around 10.000 euro to Brasilia CEFE to

refurnish their informatics lab

- The need for a person in loco, not only able to maintain the informatics lab, but interested

in educational activities and in the institution mission

- All the people involved in the project (teachers, students, direction) think that the

experience was very positive and will continue to work with the blog, even after the end

of FRIDA funding: the blog is actually being integrated in the educational offer of the

institution

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