Los Sistemas de Información Geográfica como recurso pedagógico para el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de las Ciencias Sociales en la Universidad La Gran Colombia

Abstract

This document gathers the results of a research that aimed to design a series of didactic sequences that allowed the learning of GIS in the students of the Degree in Social Sciences of the La Gran Colombia University, belonging to the research hotbed “Urban Dialogues", with the purpose of reinforce their teaching skills and their research profile. This process was carried out following the theoretical foundations of collaborative learning and was designed and applied in the between semester course "SIG for future graduates in Social Sciences", which deals with topics that link the competitions standards issued by the MEN with the management of spatial analysis data and the creation of digital cartography. The implementation of the course allows us to conclude that the didactic sequences made for its implementation were a pertinent pedagogical resource to achieve a significant articulation between the learning of contents and knowledge about GIS, since the students demonstrated to acquire the expected skills in a practical sense, through the domain of the functions in the Arc GIS program; in a theoretical sense, thanks to acquired cartographic concepts and interpretative sense, from the analysis of social problems and their incorporation into reality, through the digital specialization of the research problems of their ongoing projects.