The visiting researcher from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) at DigiMedia, Vanessa Pinto, led the workshop “The new Digital World for Seniors – Aging and transformations in the search for information”, at the Socio Educational Building of Gafanha da Encarnação, as part of the Senior Program from the Municipality of Ílhavo.

The session took part on February 7, 2025, and challenged participants to explore the digital world and the way in which aging influences the search for information. The workshop provided a sharing and learning space for curious and eager seniors exploring the digital world.

This initiative is part of Vanessa Pinto’s PhD Sandwich Internship (PDSE-CAPES) at the UA, in the Doctoral Program in New Media, under the supervision of Prof. Maria João Antunes, from the University of Aveiro (UA), and Prof. Tania Valente, from the UNIRIO.

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Sofia Ribeiro, a DigiMedia PhD student, delivered a fifty-hour accredited training course for 3rd Cycle and Secondary school teachers, as part of her doctoral research. The course entitled “Dig2Phy: Capacitação digital docente através da criação de recursos educativos tangíveis” was promoted by the Centro de Formação da Associação de Escolas dos Concelhos de Aveiro e Albergaria-a-Velha (CFAECAAV), between the 9^th October 2024 and the 15^th January 2025. Teachers from schools in Aveiro, Murtosa e Oliveira Oliveira do Bairro attended the training.

The teacher training aimed to improve the digital competencies of teachers, namely training on how to plan, implement and share educational resources using the Dig2Phy platform (https://dig2phy.web.ua.pt/), multimedia copyright licenses, cybersecurity and the promotion of phygital pedagogical approaches in the teachers’ classrooms.

Sofia Ribeiro’s doctoral research is supervised by Professors Pedro Beça and Mónica Aresta (DigiMedia members), who also contributed to the preparation of this training course.

Sofia Ribeiro, a DigiMedia PhD student, is promoting, in collaboration with the Centro de Formação da Associação de Escolas dos Concelhos de Aveiro e Albergaria-a-Velha (CFAECAAV), a fifty-hour accredited training course for 3rd cycle and secondary school teachers, as part of her doctoral research entitled “Teachers’ digital development model: Digital platform to create tangible educational resources”. The teacher training aims to improve teachers’ digital competencies, while creating educational resources for specific school subjects.

The training will start on the 9th of October and will take place at 40.1.8 (Department of Communication and Arts) and SALT – Space for Active Learning and Teaching (Department of Education and Psychology). The course has been accredited by the Conselho Científico-Pedagógico da Formação Contínua of the University of Minho.

To register, please click here: https://cfaecaav.cfae.pt/formador/turma/307/detalhe/, after logging into the user’s account. The registration deadline is the 8th of October.