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Letramento Multimídia Estatístico - LeME


Title of Initiative: Letramento Multimídia Estatístico - LeME
Organization: Statistical Multimedia Literacy
Contact: mauren@furg.br (coordinator) or giipeefurg@gmail.com (search group)
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Valid from : no specif start date in 2012 – no end date
Purpose: The LeME has developed by the academic team from the Innovation Center of Statistics Education [ICE] of the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics [IMEF] of the Federal University of Rio Grande [FURG]. Your objective is to promote social transformation through active, playful and interdisciplinary pedagogical practices that promote the Statistical Literacy of children and young people, so that they can read autonomously and critically, process the statistical information that is in the society, mainly by the media . The program LeME as a Statistical Multimedia Literacy, is an imaginary boat (it can be considered as a classroom) that can dock at any Pier/Port (school, event, community), in Brazil or anywhere in the world, is used to promote human right of statistical literacy within the society in where we live. The name LeME makes an analogy to the device controlling boats. This nautical terminology is given due to it originated from the Federal University of Rio Grande - FURG, located on the southern coast of Brazil. This project has carried out expeditions (workshops, courses) with young people or children embark as a crew (establishing an analogy to the people who ensure the operation of a boat, due to the intended protagonism of the learner), become researchers and conduct with the guidance of commandant (teachers), research on topics of their own interest or of their communities, create research tools, collect data, using Statistics and discuss the results. Yours activities can be developed with different duration times. Predominantly, the duration of a LeME is 20 hours, however it can be simplified, or extended, depending on the availability. Since 2012 LeME was created, it has been developed in collaboration with CCMar, where it started the activities and got developed. Even though the actions of CCMar have benefited companies, different schools and communities in the southern coastal region of Brazil, and the Federal University of Rio Grande [FURG] got the improvement through its actions. In addition, LeME has already been implemented in other Brazilian states, and for the same reason in other countries, as well as Colombia and Mexico.

Target Audience:

  • School children/ teachers
  • Universities (students/teachers)
  • General public

Providing Entity:

  • Regional agency or training institute
  • University/ Academia

Language:

  • Brazilian portuguese

Products:

  • Face to face
  • Videos
  • Games and Activities
  • Websites
  • Documents
  • News
  • Instructional material
  • Outreach material
Mode of implementation: Desenvolvimento de oficinas e a protagonização do papel de pesquisador estatístico.
Outcomes: In 10 years of operation, LEME has served around 3000 students of CCMAR. Not counting other courses, workshops and projects implemented with LEME. Over time, it was awarded the best statistical literacy project by IASE, was recognized as a social technology by Fundação Fundação Banco do Brasil and was researched by renowned Brazilian foundations in the country. In addition, it has contributed to the training of numerous teachers in first formation, inserting them in the profession and in the academic environment. LEME is also a research target for researchers in the area, with the publication of articles, master's dissertations, doctoral theses, etc.
Challenges: We believe that the main challenges are related to the demystification of statistics as something difficult, considering the precariousness of education in the country.

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