Abstract

PESTANA, Miguel; DIAS-TRINDADE, Sara  and  MOREIRA, José António. Drawing new didactic realities with the motivational power of digital applications in History teaching. Acta Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.42, e52049.  Epub Apr 01, 2020. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v42i1.52049.

In today's world, students need to master a set of different skills, that enable them to co-live in this new social, cultural, economic and political order. In this context, it is increasingly important to articulate school curricula with the use of digital technologies as a means of promoting these competences, as stated by international entities, that advocate the need to create new learning scenarios. It is one of these new scenarios, enriched with different digital applications - Kahoot, Mentimeter, Plickers and EdPuzzle - which we intend to analyse, describing its impact on the academic self-concept of elementary students, based on a qualitative analysis of their perceptions. The results show that this scenario, anchored in a model centred on learning and skills development, can have very positive effects on students' academic self-concept in the different dimensions considered: motivation, task orientation, confidence in their skills and relationship with colleagues.

Keywords : digital apps; academic self-concept; history teaching.

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