Abstract

TRINDADE, Sara Dias  and  MOREIRA, J. António. Mobile technologies and digital recreation in the construction of historical knowledge. Rev. Elet. Educ. [online]. 2017, vol.11, n.2, pp.637-652. ISSN 1982-7199.  https://doi.org/10.14244/198271992230.

Due to the new challenges that education faces nowadays, resorting to mobile learning and particularly to mobile technologies, as well as to the analysis of its impact on both motivational and psychosocial levels of non-higher education students, has been gaining progressive interest among the scientific community. The present investigation has as its main objective to verify if, through the usage of the iPad and the iTunes U platform, students appropriate structural concepts for the construction of historical knowledge. Through the development of a case study, the investigation focused on a group of 47 9th grade students, aged between 14 and 16 years, who worked with a technological ecosystem to create a digital story related to the Portuguese Revolutionary period of 1974/76. The main app used for this activity was Book Creator, which allows the work to be uploaded to the iBooks app, turning it into an interactive book. The results obtained show that using this type of mobile technologies and its apps can have very positive effects, not only at a motivational level, but also, and specially, to what concerns acquiring and building historical knowledge through the appropriation of structural concepts like historical significance and evidence.

Keywords : Mobile technologies; History teaching; Complexity..

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