Keywords
constructivism
educational technology
History education
Mathematics education
secondary education
wiki
How to Cite
Abstract
Two professors at the University of Puerto Rico‘s Laboratory High School, one a teacher of Mathematics, the other one of History, offer detailed descriptions of how their use of digital technologies (graphing calculators and a class wiki, respectively), have facilitated their practice of constructivist pedagogy. They offer a brief theoretical account of how digital technologies complement this pedagogy, but conclude that the evaluation of particular technologies needs to be the object of a cost-benefit analysis, and that teachers are best qualified to make this judgment.
How to cite:
Abreu-Ramos, J. W., & Seale-Collazo, J. (2011). Constructivismo y tecnología: Reflexiones desde la enseñanza a nivel secundario de las Matemáticas y la Historia. Cuaderno de Investigación en la Educación, 26, 70-86. Retrieved from https://revistas.upr.edu/index.php/educacion/article/view/13318
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