Historical thinking skills with digital resources : causes, consequences, change and continuity

As part of the topics dedicated to Travels and travellers: economic, social and cultural connections and Churches and Religion – historical paths of long duration and transversal to the content addressed in the traditional textbooks, in adherence to the inspiring principles of the HistoryLab project – two educational paths on Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages and Religious Discrimination have been designed, intended for the achievement of historical thinking skills and competencies. Specifically, the programming of the indicated activities and the tools used will enable the students to make historical arguments from sources; analyse and evaluate the interaction of causes and/ or effects, simple and multiple; compare and contextualize the ability to explain and establish multiple and different perspectives on a given historical phenomenon; practice chronological reasoning; and connect patterns of continuity and change over time to broad historical processes or themes. The practice of “thinking historically” will also activate other cognitive fields and skill acquisitions, responding to the exercise of full and conscious citizenship (relying on history and heritage culture), through the related experiences: Interdisciplinarity in an “intercultural” vision; Education to empathy; Heritage pedagogy; Active citizenship; Reliability of digital resources.