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According to recent data (Hoje Macau, 2014), 79% of the Macao families own computer equipments (desktops and laptops). 93% of the residents have access to the internet from their own homes and 24% also surf the internet while in the work place. Accordind to the same source, Macao residents make use of the internet, especially to search for information (87%), communicate (83%) and to access government services (35%). In Macao, in the Higher Education sector, at the moment, the Portuguese Language, one of the official languages of the Region, can be learned in, at least, five institutions: University of Macau (public), Macau Polytechnic Institute (public), Institute for Tourism Studies (public), City University of Macau (private) and University of Saint Joseph (private). Each of these institutions may have Portuguese, Brazilian and Chinese teachers to carry on the teaching/learning process. Having said that, what is the relationship between the previous two aspects? It is obvious that in Macao the new technologies, digital tools and the internet are very important. We hardly need to make a survey to realize that young people use, for example, facebook and wechat, daily and constantly (“allways-on”). Travelling on a bus, from home to school, one will see mobile phones or ipads on almost everyones hands. In meanwhile, are the teachers of Portuguese Language in Macao, in the Higher Education, taking advantage of the digital tools and of the young people interest in new technology to teach the foreign language? In this study, through an online based questionnaire, we would like to know if the teachers of Portuguese (Chinese, Brazilian and Portuguese), working in the previous mentioned Higher Education institutions, are aware of language learning with new technology. We also would like to learn about teachers’ opinion on the technology and digital tools as facilitators of learning. Finnally, we’ll try to know what specific tools are used by the teachers to achieve certain learning goals. This study will allow us to know whether, in a society dominated by new technology, Internet and “digital natives” (Prensky 2001), on one hand, teachers of Portuguese in Macao Higher Education institutions have experience using online materials to teach the language and, on another hand, learn about the reasons why they do/do not make use of those materials.
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This chapter explores the ways in which a relational understanding of the education process and the use of collaborative technologies in the connectivist tradition might inform and transform university teaching.
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We present an overview and discussion of the Colloquium «Narrative, Media and Cognition», which took place at Porto's Centre of Catholic University of Portugal in July of 2015, under the organization of the Research Centre for Science and Technology of the Arts (CITAR). Several scholars of different areas presented research about the uses and advances in narrative study and practice in a broad range of areas, giving some important insights about the latest developments in Narrative Studies, Ontology of Narrative and the uses of Narrative in Art, Cinema, Performance, Journalism, Marketing and Literature, among other fields. After briefly describing the main points of each presentation in the Colloquium we try to draw some conclusions and possibilities raised by the Colloquium and take a glimpse of future paths that the use of Narrative can end up taking.
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