Angel Díaz-Barriga

Construcción de programas de estudio en la perspectiva del enfoque de desarrollo de competencias

The use of the competency-based approach in education is very recent; it is also a somewhat hasty implementation for educational work that shows gaps not only in its conceptualization, but also with regard to the instruments upon which it is based. In the case of the planning for study programs, it has become a gateway for a return to the behavioral and efficiency-based perspective in education. There is a lack of clarity with regard to the creation of a curriculum; at the same time, the idea of relying on verbs and performance indicators prevails in several documents. In this paper, the author puts forward a proposal for the elaboration of programs which aim to articulate a pedagogical emphasis on skills from a didactic perspective on the teaching profession; in this way, in addition to recovering historical elements associated with this way of thinking, the author aims to contribute to the new didactic movement.

TIC en el trabajo del aula. Impacto en la planeación didáctica

In the current information era it is imminent to include Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the classroom. This process makes it necessary to review its educational use and the didactic sense with which it is implemented. It must be clear that ICT provides us with access to information; however, that it does not generate knowledge. This large amount of information implies the development of cognitive processes, which allow the student to identify, to classify and to prioritize the academic value of references, as well as to obtain a personal construction of the answer. This article makes a proposal to construct didactics sequences linking didactics principles to the use of ICTs.