Abstract
Time for learning is increasingly reduced and pupils are looking for ways through which knowledge is made available in a compact and fast way. In addition, access to knowledge becomes all the more attractive as it can be accessed as well as the content on social media, characterized by immediacy, speed of time, and presence of content expressed through different formats. It is the responsibility of the school to create the conditions for young people to learn in the ways offered by the time in which they live. The work aims, after providing a theoretical frame of reference that recognizes value to the new ways through which the teacher works in the classroom, communicate the experience of micro learning realized through an educational experimentation. The experience involved five classes in the third year of secondary school, in which students with disabilities were also present.
TopThe Need For School: Adapting To The Times
The pressing pace of the changes of the present time, to which most people find it difficult to get used to, transforms the way of living, thinking, communicating, interacting, learning and organizing existence.
The rapidity of the social transformations we are witnessing affects cultural, social, political and economic structures to the point of making it difficult to imagine what the future will be like. The processes that affect the reality in which we live, subjected to sudden and radical changes, also make their effects felt in the social sciences.
In every field, education is also called to intervene to help young people decipher these changes and to be able to accept the transformations they bring by providing them with the tools for understanding the reality (Power, 2015). Young people who are preparing to begin their autonomous life are more affected than others by the transformations, and the transition to adulthood, which has always been one of the most complex stages of the development of the person, is much more complex than in the past. The school organization is not sheltered from the changes taking place in the various sectors and has to revise its timing, content and teaching methods through which the teacher plans actions that can respond to the needs of young people, who ask what and how they can do to satisfy their needs (Unesco, 2019).
Young people and their existential condition are a reflection of the times, and studying their way of life offers a view of the processes of change underway, facilitating their exploration of the great issues affecting the social sciences (Furlong, 2013).
Key Terms in this Chapter
Social Constructivism: Theory of knowledge whereby knowledge is built within a social context through interactions, language, and other symbol systems. Social constructivism sees learning as a process of constructing meaning and not as the acquisition of knowledge that exists externally with respect to the student.
Scrolling Time: The current mode by which through the horizontal or vertical scrolling of a text or other type of data on the screen of a device you access the contents.
Mind Map: Representation that reveals the relationships between ideas or concepts that can be useful in the construction and expansion of understanding.
Educational Planning: Activity designed by the teacher that allows to transform what is definable as a cognitive activity into material and conditions.
Class Group: A group of students who live in the same environment and are linked together as members belonging to that environment.