DIDACTICS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND TEACHING DIGITAL COMPETENCE

In early education

This book offers the theoretical foundations and the methodological keys necessary to work, in an integrated and sequential way, the Didactics of Social Sciences (DSS) and the Teaching Digital Competence (TDC) in the Early Childhood or Elementary Education (EE) stage.

It is the first Latin American work that, firmly grounded in the most recent international scientific literature, studies the bases of teaching and learning of temporal, cultural, spatial and social notions in this educational stage, starting from the implementation of Information and Communication Technologies, and the development of TDC.

DELFÍN ORTEGA-SÁNCHEZ is a permanent professor at the University in the area of Didactics of Social Sciences and Vice-rector for Social Responsibility, Culture and Sports at the University of Burgos. He has a PhD in Didactics of History and Social Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, in Educational Sciences from the University of Burgos, and in American History from the University of Extremadura. And he has a Master's degree in Educational Research from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. At present, he is lead researcher of the Didactics of Social Sciences Research Group of the University of Burgos.

1. Space and time in Early Childhood Education

Knowledge of the environment and acquisition of spatio-temporal notions

Perceiving and understanding space and time

2. Curricular integration of the key competences in EE

Key competences in this initial stage: didactic suggestions

Procedural contents for its development

Contribution of the Social Science to the development of key competences from ICT

ICT and digital competence in the knowledge of the social and cultural environment

3. ICT and the development of Digital Competence

Teacher of Social Sciences

Digital Teaching Competence and teacher training

ICT in Social Sciences in EE

4. Computer Corner. Didactic-digital resources for Social Science classroom

Methodology of learning corners in EE in Social Science

Computer Corner: location, furniture, activities, methodology and evaluation.

Educational software: Methodological and curricular orientation

The edublog in Children

Other ICT resources and tools

5. Digital strategies for cooperative and collaborative learning by discovery: the WebQuest

Structure of the WebQuest

WebQuest repositories and generators

Recommendations on the use of WebQuest in EE