Digital portfolios design as human history comprehension technique

Abstract

Given the challenges that the so-called Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have presented for education in general, what has been the role of historical knowledge for the training of young workers? The thoughts on this issue are presented by this work through the analysis of a pedagogical action developed with students of integrated technical courses of the Industrial Technical College of Santa Maria (CTISM). This has resulted in the design of a digital portfolio containing approaches on technical achievements produced by social groups during the historical period commonly identified as modernity. The method used to discuss on the activity was the descriptive-analytic that can point out as reasons for understanding the formalized problem and, from there, indicate the possibilities of overcoming it. The theoretical approach chosen for the analysis was presented by Pinto (2005) for whom man, being a technical animal, is produced in the measure of his technical actions. Thus, the relevance of reflection lies in the possibility of pedagogical activity to contribute to the understanding of the technique as a product of human groups' social history.