Reinventando la educación geográfica en tiempos de crisisLas TIC en las aulas universitarias

Abstract

The objective of this work is to carry out a reflection on the changes that we have been forced to address from the teaching of the social sciences, and in particular, in the course 'Didactics of Social Sciences: geographical space and its didactic treatment' a subject which is greatly enriched with school trips and educational itineraries for which we lack economic funding, although new technologies are erected in an indispensable resource to offset, at least in part, these deficiencies: front outputs to analyze the environment, we propose to use ICT resources to bring the environment into the classroom, natural and virtual, to have their space in the process of teaching and learning in geographical discipline. This work consists of three parts, differentiated in terms of its objectives. The first part is a reflection on the current state of the teaching of geography, whose conclusions is the starting point for the development of the following sections; then it carry out a study on the resources that new technologies offer us and its teaching meaning and use in the context of the teaching of geography. It is an alternative proposal of work with students through the use of technological tools that do not require a high economic cost, since most of the centres already have the necessary means and resources. Finally, in the third part, it provides different examples of practical activities that have been made on this subject during the first semester of the academic year 2012-2013 and the assessment made by the students from his dual role as learners and future teachers in the classrooms of primary education classroom.