Approfondimento storico e nuove tecnologie: il laboratorio didattico "Noi e gli Altri"

The paper describes the experience and results of the teaching laboratory "Us" and the "Others", organized by two Institutes of the CNR, the Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe, located in Cagliari, and the Institute for Educational Technology, during the Genoa Science Festival 2010. The laboratory was designed by researchers to offer students of lower and upper-secondary school the opportunity to experience historical research on the Internet and to encourage reflection on what are the advantages and limitations of the information problem solving process while using Internet. The learning goal was to familiarize students with different information resources and search techniques, as well as to help them establishing the reliability of the information source. At the end of each session, students were asked to fill out a questionnaire describing the strategy adopted for searching, processing and selecting reliable information. Preliminary results are briefly presented here