Abstract
The classroom curriculum for teaching geometry using digital technology needs to emphasise a radically different set of contents and skills when compared with the current paper and pencil standards in use in Spanish classrooms complying with the current official curriculum. This research examined possible applications of vector graphics and screencasting as the main tools to teach digital drawing and geometry in secondary school classrooms during the year 2018–19 within the limits set in the official curriculum, intending to find out how ready students are to use these digital tools. In collaboration with art teachers in Madrid, a screencasting set of seven lessons were made available to almost 250 students and feedback data were collected using an online survey. An analysis of the results revealed that no technological or cultural barrier to adoption existed on the part of the students to accept both online instruction methods, and digital geometry and drawing exercises with vector graphics. Based on these findings, contextual information is presented to advocate Spanish educational policy decision-makers to encourage the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in classrooms in a well-adapted, environmentally-conscious manner.
Highlights
Framing the problemEconomic and technological changes driven by increasing globalisation are impacting education systems around the world
Art teachers active in the secondary school system were approached through their professional associations and calls to participate were placed in twitter accounts and mailing lists of ongoing projects, the institutional webpage of the author and via word-of-mouth
The present research can be compared with similar initiatives from the recent past to draw general conclusions on the changes that have and have not taken place in technological adaptations for schools, using geometry teaching as a reference
Summary
Economic and technological changes driven by increasing globalisation are impacting education systems around the world. Learning is being reshaped by these changes at a much faster pace than our cultural institutions, our school systems especially, can keep up with. Trying to keep up with the evolving panorama can be a bewildering experience. The fast obsolescence rate of digital applications, new methodologies and the rate at which novel buzzwords are born and dead have had a deterrent effect on down to top change settling into system reforms. Amidst the rush of the new and the inert stasis of old teaching methods, we still need to make sure that we exploit. Technology (ALT), a UK-based professional and scholarly society and membership organisation.
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