Las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la educación científica temprana. Una revisión

Abstract

This article shows an overview of recent psychological literature about relation between
children’
s scientific understanding and new technologies of information used in educa-
tional contexts.
The aim is to ar
gue that both, scientific education and early children’
s
scientific rationality may be support by environmental learning based on information
technologies and learning networks.
The literature review includes studies that link cog-
nitive development with scientific education; studies that demonstrates how technolo-
gies of information af
fect to early scientific understanding; and studies about the role
played by virtual technologies in descriptive research about the cognitive processes in-
volved in scientific thinking.
Along the review
, an assessment is made focused on some
future trends in the area
.
W
e conclude that to implement learning networks in educatio-
nal contexts improves better achievements in early scientific education