Experiencia virtual de interpretación de cambios en el paisaje en la formación inicial de docentes de Educación Infantil

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We are immersed in a time of global environmental and socioeconomic change, of biodiversity crisis and deep alteration of the environment by human impacts, called Anthropocene. The understanding of these environmental changes that have occurred in recent decades is a key issue in environmental education. To do this, it is necessary to know the nearby environment and learn to interpret the landscape. Here, a virtual experience is designed and implemented for the interpretation of these landscape changes through online digital cartography, as a didactic tool of applied environmental education, and used with future teachers of early childhood education. Using the historical comparator of aerial photographs of the National Aerial Orthophotography Program (PNOA), some guided examples have been shown on the creation of wetlands and the evolution of some ecosystems in Asturias (North of Spain). The students had to choose an area of the nearby natural environment, observe and describe the changes that had occurred in the last 20 years. Urban growth, land use change and agricultural and extensive livestock abandonment, as well as the effects of forest fires were among the changes selected by the students. The future teachers considered that the didactic experience allows the approach to the natural environment, both in the grade and in Early Childhood Education, having been useful in their own learning and expressed their interest in using this resource with their future students.