Pedagogical Design of Digital Learning of Future Art Teachers in a Virtual Classroom

Abstract

The pedagogical design of digital learning of future art teachers in a virtual classroom have been presented in this article. The development of the learning process of professional training of future art teachers of is guided through the creation of a multimedia and interactive path with instructions, references, activities and tasks both on computers connected to the Internet and on a variety of digital devices, such as mobile phones, tablet and laptop. In the first stage of study learners are gradually introduced into the digital didactics world, as they are required to deal with a set of digital tools and products. Additionally, they have to create some specific didactic products leading up to the second stage, where they will create their digital didactics project in a Mistakes Laboratory. The advantage of the proposed approach is that, what at the beginning of each session the digital expert uploads and shares chunks of the course of art history on the digital didactic platform. Then, learners autonomously explore the content, select and experience the activities they prefer. From time to time the digital activity is interrupted and students have share their ideas and discuss their doubts. Each session ends with the introduction of a short new chunk of blended and flipped learning path to be explored as homework on the platform. It will partially reveal the content of the following meeting. In this way the teachers are inductively engaged as much in the flipped lesson instructional strategy as in real samples of digital artistic didactics.