The Ambientech programme has an active and innovative technology with the aim to facilitate the learning process of sciences and technology through the Internet. The inclusion of information and communication technologies is the basic tool of this methodology, which aims to adapt to the current technological culture of students.
This website contains a number of multimedia activities with attractive animations and multiple choice exercises facilitating the learning process and increasing the motivation of learners towards sciences and environment.
The educational multimedia contents of the Ambientech programme have been carefully designed to have a highly intuitive navigation and can be used without difficulties by secondary school teachers and students.
The didactic units of this programme are for students learning alone or in groups of 2-3 people. The role of teachers during the working sessions is of guidance and supervision of the process of assimilation of the knowledge by students.
The structure of activities is simple. It includes buttons with information explaining what to do next, gaps to fill in, animations, graphics, drawings, etc. Applications advance on the basis of answers and actions of students, then respecting their individual rhythms and potentiate their personal learning process. These activities also facilitate the learning from errors, giving some tips and support when needed.
Most of Ambientech’s activities have an error counter, which permits students to test their knowledge instantly and, at the same time, is a challenge to urge students to think before acting.
The contents of activities have the aim to raise curiosity and interest of students towards the subject under study: Besides theoretical contents are questions, quizzes and other obstacles that the student will need to solve in order to obtain more information, keep on advancing and to be able to get a better understanding of a determined subject.
ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS
On the other hand, given that one of the objectives of this website is the environmental awareness of our youth, the contents of units are usually dealt through different environmental situations or challenges. Therefore, it is common to find environmental focuses in almost all didactic units of the programme. Our main aim is to join sciences and environment in order to give basic scientific knowledge and at the same time, to make youngsters aware of the need to be respectful with our environment.