Dr. Sonia Pinto investigated inclusive education in network to foster digital literacy. She developed a CPD model based on Social Network and Knowledge Mapping to foster ICT skills to enable the (re)construction and sharing of knowledge by disadvantaged youth of Telecentros in Brazil.
This study was developed at the Open University – Knowledge Media Institute under the supervision of Dr. Okada. Dr. Pinto is graduated in Pedagogy at the Catholic University of Salvador – Bahia and holds a Master’s Degree in Education and Contemporaneity at the University of Bahia (UNEB) and a Doctoral degree at the Federal University of Bahia – Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Programme in Knowledge Diffusion (DMMDC-UFBA).
Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Bahia. She coordinated a project on digital literacy with young people at Telecentros.BR, which is a program of the Federal Government of Brazil whose aims focus on digital inclusion and social innovation for disadvantaged learners. She was a visiting pos-doctoral researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute – Open University – UK (KMi-OU) and examined students’ argumentation during ENGAGE project under the supervision of Dr. Okada.
She is currently a member of the COLEARN Open Research Network (KMi/OU) and was a representative of the Digital Literacy Training Programme of the Secretary of Digital Inclusion of Brazil Government. Her research interests include the areas of digital literacy, inclusion, scientific literacy, networked learning, knowledge mapping, education and technology and distance learning.
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Projects:
weSPOT, ENGAGE, CONNECT
Team: Dr. Sonia Pinto, Dr. Karine Rocha, Dr. Okada
Publication:
Okada, A., Serra, A.R.C., Ribeiro, S. and Pinto, S. (2015) Key skills for co-learning and co-inquiry in two open platforms: a massive portal (EDUCARED) and a personal environment (weSPOT), Open Praxis International Journal, 7, 1, International Council for Open and Distance Education
Serra, A.R.C., Ribeiro, S., Pinto, S. and Okada, A. (2014) A utilização de REA na Universidade Aberta do Brasil, III Colóquio Luso Brasileiro de Educação a Distância e Elearning, Lisboa-Portugal
Okada, A., Serra, A.R.C., Ribeiro, S. and Pinto, S. (2014) Competências-Chave para coaprender em ambientes abertos massivos, RIED. Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia, Asociación Iberoamericana de Educación Superior a Distancia (AIESAD)
Okada, A., Pinto, S. and Ribeiro, S. (2014) Scientific Literacy through co-Inquiry based on non-formal and informal learning, PCST2014 – 13th International Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference, Salvador-Brazil
Okada, A., Serra, A.R.C., Barros, D., Ribeiro, S. and Pinto, S. (2014) Competencias-clave para coaprender y coinvestigar en la era digital en entornos abiertos y massivos, in eds. Alexandra Okada, Open Educational Resources and Social Networks, 2nd edition, 933162227, S. Luis: EDUEMA
Pinto, S., Ribeiro, S. and Okada, A. (2013) Formação em rede para inclusão digital de educadores de telecentro, III Colóquio Luso Brasileiro de Educação a Distância e Elearning, 6 – 7 de Dezembro de 2013, Lisboa-Portugal
Okada, A., Serra, A.R.C., Ribeiro, S. and Pinto, S. (2013) Competências-Chave na era digital para coaprendizagem e coinvestigação, III Colóquio Luso Brasileiro de Educação a Distância e Elearning, Lisboa-Portugal
Okada, A., Pinto, S., Ribeiro, S. and Serra, A.R.C. (2013) Desarrollo de competencias esenciales en la Cibercultura con co-aprendizaje basado en co-investigación, Sexto Congreso Internacional de Aprendizaje y Cibersociedad, Madrid, Spain, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)