Structural elements of the Teaching of Informatics

Abstract

The construction of activities is determined by the specific knowledge, since the content to be worked out is never neutral in classroom relations. In this sense, the present article starts from the concept of specific didactics to be able to identify the constitutive and characteristic elements of Informatics as a scientific discipline.  The link between the concepts of didactics and informatics allows us to pose the existence of the structural elements of the Didactics of Informatics. Without ignoring the inherent knowledge of General Didactics, it is considered that the three main axes that structure the Didactics of Informatics and that constitute disciplinary elements for the investigation and the aulic work are: the process of model construction, the use of computers and programing. Particularly the latter, is not only important from the informatics discipline, but is one of the fundamental components of didactic proposals oriented to work with digital technologies.