A digital learning environment www.coloredellastoria.unifg.it: didactic methodologies, interactions and guidelines for the participatory design of digital tool

An interdisciplinary analysis of the social context reveals the signs of digital revolution, meant as redefinition of the Western culture paradigm. This change involves educative context and, particularly, didactic methodologies, learning strategies, educative communication and didactic tools. www.coloredellastoria.unifg.it is a digital learning environment for history teaching in middle schools, realized for the MediaEvo project by ERID Lab, a research laboratory of University of Foggia. The quoted environment was tested in four middle school classes using a constructivist didactic methodology, Problem based Learning. The selected methodology promotes team working, learning goals personalization, development of problem solving skills and enables an integration of new technologies in the didactic practices. What are the interactions generated in a digital learning environment between students and teachers and among students? What are the sudents’ guidelines to design a digital learning environment? The present research points out the reflections about interactions and competences of students in the didactic context described above through the use of questionnaires among students and data analysis obtained by the observation of the didactic experience.