Medialab Prado

This study assumes that in order to embrace the totality of all forms of education under the rubric of lifelong learning it becomes important to consider it as a process of living, ‘learning as a social practice’, that  encourage different forms of interactions among learners and engaging in different communities of practice, both in the school and outside the school. Research based on this premise implies a change of focus for studying learning and digital technology using socio-cultural theories and through a process of 'designing' multimodal, multisemiotic and multiliteracy ‘activities’. By developing a framework I aim to contribute to our understanding of the relationship between formality and informality and report about the affordances and constrains of the different social contexts and their practices.