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Exploring Representations of Classroom Practices Mediated by Information Communication Technologies (ICTs)

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This is an exploratory study which aims to identify analytical dimensions that allow understanding the representations of classroom practices mediated by ICTs in the images of school classes presented in the articles of the written press. Sociomaterial and Multimodal perspective categories are recovered to understand the regularities and the differences in the meanings that these images construct even in different countries. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of the scenes, the actors (students, teachers), the forms of interaction and the artifacts that are privileged in the media discourse about ICTs in schools developed in South America. In the analysis of the learning events with ICTs that are represented in written press we can find some relation patterns in which the notebook is part.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This chapter is included in the research UBACyT 20020150200214BA “Mediated Educational practices in public discourse in Argentina.” The project is directed by Mariana Landau, and it is financed by University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

  2. 2.

    The Secondary School was included in Ceibal in 2008.

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    https://www.lanacion.com.ar/1979489-plan-conectar-compraran-450000-netbooks and https://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/ceibal-decada-plan-equidad.html, among others.

  4. 4.

    With respect to the presence of computers, it is important to note that at least in Argentina, the distribution of these low-cost portable devices was the most important component of these policies that based a large part of their initiatives on the idea that Access to these technologies would favor the end of the digital divide.

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    https://www.lanacion.com.ar/1800650-alejandro-artopoulos-el-programa-conectar-igualdad-fue-un-fracaso and https://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/experto-insto-cambiar-pedagogias-acelerar-logros-plan-ceibal.html and others.

  6. 6.

    https://www.lanacion.com.ar/1757467-desconectar-igualdad-un-programa-que-inspiro-elogios-pero-hoy-recibe-criticas.

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    https://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/plan-ceibal-llega-escuela-paraguaya.html. This article is about an Uruguayan school in Paraguayan territory.

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    https://www.lanacion.com.ar/1876751-el-plan-conectar-igualdad-sigue-afirman-en-el-ministerio-de-educacion.

  9. 9.

    The copybook is an element that is used in primary education, and Connect Equality is a plan intended for secondary schools. In the body of the note, there are references to “Digital Primary.” So it is probable that this image is linked to this program.

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    https://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/prestamo-bid-potenciar-plan-ceibal.html.

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    This clothing is called “túnica” and with the “moña” they are the symbols of the public Primary school in Uruguay.

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    https://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/banco-mundial-reconocio-equivoco-calificar-ineficaz-plan-ceibal.html.

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    https://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/emociones-son-asunto-plan-ceibal.html.

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Landau, M. (2019). Exploring Representations of Classroom Practices Mediated by Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). In: Cerratto Pargman, T., Jahnke, I. (eds) Emergent Practices and Material Conditions in Learning and Teaching with Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10764-2_4

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