History Learning in virtual environments

This essay is based on the expansion and deepening of an earlier article entitled. Innovate to diversify and promote historical learning through virtual environments., presented in academic events at the University of Guadalajara, the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas and the University of Extremadura in Spain. Also, this version has been used as study material for some courses for training teachers of history. The idea of the incorporation of Information Technology and Communication (ICT) for learning history always leads me to think about the history of these technologies and the continuing insistence of everything wonderful that could be for education, on the one hand and, sencondly, to complaints from educators about the way students get distracted from their schoolwork. This is true of radio, television and now computers and the Internet, video games, cell phones and the wide range of mobile devices. Speaking of history, we should ask ourselves if, before the emergence of all these devices, there were no other distractions for students, which made life outside school more attractive than inside.