TITLE:
Didactic Innovations through YouTube and Gigapan: Teachers’ Perceptions in Classrooms in Southern Chile
AUTHORS:
Luis Cárcamo-Ulloa, Paula Flores-Aguilar, Juan Domingo Ramírez
KEYWORDS:
Collaborative Work, Educational Innovation, Web 2.0, Didactics with IT, Chile
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.5 No.12,
June
26,
2014
ABSTRACT: There are few
experiences using Social Web (or Web 2.0) for collaborative learning in public
schools of Chile; therefore this is an emerging challenge for professors of the
techno-pedagogical units. This article describes innovation strategies that
incorporate Social Web tools in the formal education process in Chile. Using
scholar ethnographies we describe 26 different classrooms experiences (between
2010 and 2012) using YouTube (for secondary schools) and GigaPan (for primary
schools) to teach history and language contents, respectively. The main
conclusions show the motivational drive that the Social Web provides in the
regular classroom setting. The teachers valued positively the result of the
students work groups, and the exchange of experiences among groups.