«Science Bits: using ICT to facilitate methodological change in science teaching»
Héctor Ruiz MartínScience Bits
Abstract
In recent years, ICTs have flooded the classrooms of schools around the world. However, in most cases, technology is being used to reproduce the traditional educational model, without providing a truly differential value at the pedagogical level. In other words, 21st century technology is being used to support a 19th century educational model. Today’s society requires a transformation of traditional educational models, based on the mere transmission of factual knowledge, to models focused on learning through inquiry, discovery, experimentation and reasoning; models that focus on the development of basic skills. Technology can be used to effectively promote this change, and projects like Science Bits exemplify this in the area of science education.
Bio
Héctor Ruiz has been a teacher and researcher at the Faculty of Biology at the University of Barcelona, and for 14 years he has been an entrepreneur in the world of communication and science education, and in the educational technology sector. Founder of several projects with a wide impact in the field of educational digital content, today he collaborates as a pedagogical advisor for the International Science Teaching Foundation and the Science Bits project for teaching science.
