Las TIC en la formación de las ciencias sociales, una didáctica para abordar la geografía de la población

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to demonstrate how ICT and PBL constitute strategies that allow the development of significant pedagogical processes for teaching and learning the geography of the population. To achieve this objective, this research presents the main research results related to the design and application of the didactic unit "Geography of the population a journey through ICT" in the Los Angeles de Fontibón gymnasium, Bogotá, D.C. The research was positioned theoretically from the constructivist pedagogical model, specifically from the contributions of the PBL and methodologically from the proposed learning phases of García and García (2016), strengthening with the use of ICT, since integrating these elements allows obtaining a path organized and updated learning with more significant results. This strategy was achieved from a didactic unit that was structured considering aspects such as: live and updated data from DANE, virtual questionnaires, spatial analysis activities from aerial photography, multitemporal interactive maps, mobile applications, informative videos, visits to web pages. among others. With this didactic design, it was evidenced that it is possible to generate different pedagogical practices in the population geography class, motivating learning through the use of different tools that allow understanding the population dynamics present in the students' contexts.