Integrating ICT into a social science work methodology

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His mission:

To explore and formulate questions, gather and process information, organize his sources of information and communicate his results using technology tools.

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Society as a study topic
The Social Sciences (Geography and History) focus on people: humans and their environment anchored in space (the territory) and time (the era).

Methodological framework
The study of Geography and History requires rigorous work methods that focus on the preoccupations of the present day. We have divided this suggested methodological framework into several stages and defined each stage as follows.  [Stage titles from original French were adapted to match Inquiry Process terms.]

	Explore:  A problem is always more meaningful if it is anchored in a student’s reality. Teachers can encourage students to formulate questions about various issues faced by our society today such as urbanization, globalization, democracy, human rights, major religions, industrialization, the environment, demographics, etc. All these issues or social realities can be examined from a historical or geographical perspective. The important thing is to encourage students to not only formulate questions but also hypotheses in order to find possible answers to the questions they have raised
	Gather information:  Students must establish a research plan as well as develop work tools and ways of storing the information they find.
	Organize information:  Students must synthesize the information they have found as well as examine and organize their sources.
	Communicate:  Students must select a way to share their results using text, graphs, images, video, etc.
	Review:  At any time, students may wish to critically reassess what they have done so far and imagine new solutions to the problems they are encountering.

 

ICT competency
The purpose for building ICT competency is so students will be able to use technology in an effective and judicious manner, as well as to critically assess it.  Integrating ICT means students are able to use technology when needed.

On this site, you will find explanatory documents, online resources and ideas for how to integrate ICT for each stage of this methodological framework.



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