Innovation of the Teaching Practice in the UNAE, Ecuador recurring to Web 2.0

Abstract

In this paper is socialized an innovative approach of teaching practice developed at the Universidad Nacional de Educación (UNAE) in the Society and Culture subject. It was identified that students had difficulty to understand problematic disciplines such as historical time, multi-causal explanation, collective actors, among other topics. In the logic of action research, in the collective subject Teachers was created a learning community as a management strategy for the innovation of teaching practice. To address the problem, the Lesson Study methodology was used. The teaching-learning processes were guided by the pedagogical-methodological principle of the overturned classroom and the pedagogical approaches of the Pedagogical Model of UNAE, such as constructivism, enactivism and connectivism. The objective was to innovate the teaching practice to develop the comprehension of fundamental curricular topics of History taking advantage of the educational potential of the Web 2.0.