Didactics of art education taught in the Faculties of Education and Information Technologies and Communication: the "webquest" as a constructionist methodological strategy

Abstract

Our current society finds itself in a process of continuous change which has been favoured mostly by the advances happening in the world of Information and Communication Technology (TIC´s). Rightly, education professionals have adapted, failing or succeeding, this fact from the XXI century to their work in school. Therefore, Technology and Internet have become part of the didactic tools used by numerous teachers in their classrooms. This is the main cause of the development of a more active methodology in which the main role is played by students. As it can be seen in this project, we will focus our methodological approach on the use of the webquest as a 2.0 tool with the purpose of developing a constructionist teaching-learning model applicable to the art education taught in the Faculties of Education. This new approach which will be put into practice in the classroom can´t be regarded as a way of replacing the current didactic tools but as a project whose main aim is to establish some skills which allow linking tradition and 2.0 as well as adapt the training of future teachers, who work with children aged between 3-11 years old, to the curricular and social demands of today´s world.