ICT and historical skills

  • The rapidly changing present-day information society creates new needs and opportunities for the history teacher. He can help young people to develop the skills necessary for life-long learning. The heuristic methods and the critical analyses of texts (written texts but also images, moving pictures etc.) characteristic for the historical discipline are easy transferable to other domains of knowledge acquisition. The use of information and communication technology in history instruction can help to reach the former aim. The principles of hypertext and hypermedia permit the learner (in the spirit of constructivism) to decide for him- or herself which strategy to use to reach a preconceived goal. The role of the teacher changes from that of a provider of information into that of a guide during the pupils learning process. In the following article you can read about the instructional principles, the technological design and the first results of the Maerlant-project, a project in which theThe rapidly changing present-day information society creates new needs and opportunities for the history teacher. He can help young people to develop the skills necessary for life-long learning. The heuristic methods and the critical analyses of texts (written texts but also images, moving pictures etc.) characteristic for the historical discipline are easy transferable to other domains of knowledge acquisition. The use of information and communication technology in history instruction can help to reach the former aim. The principles of hypertext and hypermedia permit the learner (in the spirit of constructivism) to decide for him- or herself which strategy to use to reach a preconceived goal. The role of the teacher changes from that of a provider of information into that of a guide during the pupils learning process. In the following article you can read about the instructional principles, the technological design and the first results of the Maerlant-project, a project in which the researchers try to reconcile history teaching, history as a scientific discipline and ICT.show moreshow less

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Author:Raphael De KeyserGND, Kathleen Rogiers, Fred Truyen
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-7794
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/923
Parent Title (English):Information: International Society for History Didactics
Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1998
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2008/06/17
Volume:19
Issue:2
First Page:107
Last Page:120
Institutes:Philologisch-Historische Fakultät
Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Geschichte
Dewey Decimal Classification:9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie
Collections:Universität Augsburg / Informations / Mitteilungen / Communications - Herausgeber: International Society for History Didactics / Information 02/1998 / ICT and historical skills (De Keyser, Raphael et al.)