NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CLASSROOM FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY TEACHING AND LEARNING

In the information society where vast amounts of information are easily accessible, the ability of finding information and knowing how to process it is one of the main challenges of education. Processing information implies testing its reliability, reaching a diagnosis about its accuracy and/or combining information if it comes from different sources or has peculiarities that require verification. Collaboration between diverse cultural institutions such as archives, museums and libraries is substantially important and future teachers of primary and secondary schools should teach how to acquire these skills.

Since the course year 2011-2012, in the Begoñako Andra Mari Teacher Training University College (Bilbao, Spain) which is attached to the University of Deusto, it is offered a subject shared by the BAM, the Archive and the Museum named “Laboratory of active methods for interdisciplinary learning sciences” which is included in the Curriculum of Primary Education pathway in Curricular deepening (6ECTS). The educational project that takes shape in this course emerges in the context of the creation of the European Higher Education Area, more popularly known as "Bologna Process ". In Spain, the implementation of Bachelor´s degrees has been a substantial part of this process. Bachelor degrees have replaced traditional degrees and diplomas, based on ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) credits. This situation involved a redesign of the curriculum in different majors, which allowed the introduction of new subjects such as the present one.

During the course of this subject, students take part in various workshops where they create scientific-didactic materials for social and natural sciences where the use of ICT-s is fundamental. Students work in projects and use ICT-s with the aim of making real the comprehensive rethinking of teaching and learning at the same time that the relevance of innovation and multidisciplinary is highlighted.

Our aim in this paper is to present this college subject as a commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration between the Archive, the Museum and the University. The projects seeks to generate knowledge networks and break with the isolated strategies and dynamics that sometimes these kind of institutions tend to deploy. Not only three institutions are taking part in this project but also five professionals of different disciplines. Both the planning and the implementation, are clear and innovative commitments to interdisciplinarity. Owe to this, materials and projects are developed from different points of view and diverse professional perspectives (arts, psychology, didactics, philosophy, history, files, the use of TIC-s and so on).

References:
[1] https://sites.google.com/site/aprendizajeinterdisciplinar/home/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAYLU-RxYU4 [comunicación presentada al Congreso Educación y Aprendizaje, Nueva York, 15-17 julio de 2014
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlnaaBePcEU [comunicación presentada en el Moodlemoot Euskadi 2014, Bilbao, 13 de junio de 2014
[4] http://mooteu14.moodlemoot.net/.