Diseñando ambientes digitales para recrear oportunidades de aprendizaje. (Designing digital environments to create learning opportunities.)

Abstract

This article discusses a series of reflections in relation to the educational implications of answering the question How can we optimize the possibilities of learning offered by information and communication technologies? It claims that educators and education nowadays are committed to the design of learning environments that take advantage of the possibilities offered by technological media. For this reason, it states a series of implications for this designing activity, the need to propose and define a pedagogical model that relates the mediations, and the conceptualization of learning from a collaborative perspective which visualizes the added value that the information and communication technologies can contribute today. Furthermore, it intends to illustrate the proposal of this model with a concrete example conducted by the Educational Computing Science Program implemented by the Ministry of Education and the Omar Dengo Foundation in Costa Rica.