(1556) A MODEL OF PROJECT-BASED STRATEGY FOR EDUCATION IN TECHNOLOGY TO 10TH AND 11TH GRADES IN COLOMBIAN SCHOOLS

摘要

In our current world citizens involve diverse technological products and services in their daily activities,however they have a limited knowledge about the production, functioning and impact of technology. Inthis sense, education plays a relevant role for the development of the competencies related withdecision taking and critical thinking about technology. In 2008, the Ministry of National Education(MNE) of Colombia published a document in which the main orientations for education in technologyfor elementary and secondary schools are presented. However, teachers usually do not include theseorientations in technology assignment curriculum design, making it a subjective process that is highlydependent of the experience and teacher opinions. As a solution, in this paper an educational strategydesign for the formation of competences in technology, based on the model of Project-Based Learning(PBL) and focused on solve a context problem of the students is described. The structure of thisstrategy is composed of phases and stages that take into account the educational communitycharacterization from a data collection, which is chronologically and sequentially organized in order toachieve the learning objectives in technology. In order to build, evaluate and validate this educationalstrategy, a collaborative work with technology teachers from some EI was developed, considering therelevance of previous teacher experience for the definition of the strategy components. Currently, theproposed strategy is being implemented in five EI in Colombia and with the aim to evaluate the impactof this strategy in the student development of technology competences, different tools will be appliedto qualitatively and quantitatively measure the progress in these competences.