DIGITAL“LEARNING WITH THE SCHOOL LIBRARY”: THE CASE OF THE WEIWE(R)BE PROGRAMME IN THE DIGITAL AND VIRTUAL SCHOOL ECOSYSTEM
1 Universidade Aberta - Open University Portugal; Rede WEIWER®, LE@D (PORTUGAL)
2 Rede de Bibliotecas Escolares, Ministério da Educação, República Portuguesa; Rede Académica Internacional WEIWER®, LE@D, Universidade Aberta (PORTUGAL)
2 Rede de Bibliotecas Escolares, Ministério da Educação, República Portuguesa; Rede Académica Internacional WEIWER®, LE@D, Universidade Aberta (PORTUGAL)
About this paper:
Appears in: EDULEARN23 Proceedings
Publication year: 2023
Pages: 2282-2287
ISBN: 978-84-09-52151-7
ISSN: 2340-1117
doi: 10.21125/edulearn.2023.0673
Publication year: 2023
Pages: 2282-2287
ISBN: 978-84-09-52151-7
ISSN: 2340-1117
doi: 10.21125/edulearn.2023.0673
Conference name: 15th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies
Dates: 3-5 July, 2023
Location: Palma, Spain
Dates: 3-5 July, 2023
Location: Palma, Spain
Abstract:
The guidance document Learning with the School Library, produced by the School Libraries Network of the Portuguese Ministry of Education (RBE, 2017), focuses on the development of skills in multiple areas of literacy based on the strategic, curricular and pedagogical articulation between the school library and the classroom. Among the areas of literacy covered by this theoretical framework, in addition to digital literacy, transversally addressed, we emphasise information literacy, which aims to "provide students with knowledge that enables them to access, produce and use information critically and to communicate effectively, ethically and with social responsibility" (RBE, 2017, p.41).In this regard, it is essential to maintain and extend the focus on strategies that serve this purpose, drawing on work in the school context to promote core values in students' holistic education. We highlight those of freedom and responsibility within the framework of active and conscious citizenship, built and strengthened in a logic of collaboration and participation. The WEIWE(R)BE Programme, which we propose to present in this text, responds precisely to this challenge and is imbued with these values, focusing, in this case, on the digital and virtual school ecosystem.
Thus, we will first systematise four of the main theoretical frameworks of the digital and virtual school, which we will consider alongside the aforementioned Learning with the School Library (RBE, 2017), namely the: European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators: DigCompEdu (Redecker & Punie, 2017); Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027) (European Union, 2020); Students' Profile by the End of Compulsory Schooling (Martins, 2017); School Libraries: Present for the Future. Strategic Framework: 2021-2027 (RBE, 2021). We will then dwell on the WEIWE(R)BE Programme, particularly its principles and practices. Finally, we will briefly reflect on the envisaged positive impacts of this Programme at the micro, meso and macro levels within educational, technological and institutional dimensions.