Teaching and learning history through didactic teaching strategies with the use of new technologies

This article describes and exposes the conclusions of a research carried out during the 2006-2007 curse in six Catalan schools. It consists in programme, produce, apply and assess a History unit of work for the second course of the Secondary School designed in an interactive way with Power Point (a programme used to make public presentations) and expendable paper materials. At the didactic design, the traditional sequence of the historic course was not renounced. The main aim of the research was to value the results of learning and the answer of the teachers that never used the new informational technologies before. The research shows that this particular didactic methodology improves the attention, academic performance and interest of the pupils and, finally, motivates the teacher's access to the use of the new technologies.