Historical Communication, Online Research and Teaching

Abstract

To offer a first access to the Didactics of History it is necessary to teach students to historicize the past, a concept foreign to them both for the young age and for the dimension of simultaneity and eternal present in which the information society leads us to live. The second access to historical content must start from the web because it is the environment more familiar to students. Internet is the modern archive both as a source in its millions of pages, and as a place where public and private institutions upload their official sources. The digitalization of content and networks offers innovative tools for learning with E-learning environments. It is a procedure that goes beyond distance teaching by intervening on the role of the teacher, no longer at the center of the class, but at his side and offering with Lifelong learning real tools for the updating of teachers that can potentially be addressed to the entire citizenship. The possibility of accessing documents, the possibility of offering content by audiovisual promotes access to the public of the historian emphasizes its public function and its responsibility.