Història de la ciència : ensenyament i les tecnologies de la informació i la comunicació

Resum

The prestigious journal Isis published two essay reviews in the volume 98 for the year 2007 under the generic heading of «Clio Electric». Both articles intended a reflection about the so called «digital revolution» in academic research on history of science. Internet resources are making their way both in university and secondary education, and nowadays it begins to be usual to find readings, forums, multimedia animations, videos and images concerning the teaching of history of science. The fact is that internet has become an ordinary and permanent place of learning. A reality that has to be accepted with its challenges and inconveniences. This paper is dealing with certain kind of learning activities that can allow secondary school students to gain some access to history of science and technology in their science courses. An important point of these activities is that they have been produced to be used with the content management system for educational purposes Moodle founded in the collaborative learning philosophy. The history of science may find in the ICT an appropriate companion to be implemented in science curricula.