The paper proceeds in four stages. Firstly, it starts from nowadays circumstances and it discusses the impact of
the new media on everyday life and especially on teenagers, as well as the expectations of the society and of the
employers from the school graduates.
Secondly, it develops a basic presentation of the constructivist approach on new media, from the point of view of
the constructivist main principles in learning.
Thirdly, this article analyzes the Social Studies teaching-learning process according to the constructivist approach
on new media and the consequences of such an approach for the Social Studies teaching-learning process; a special
focus is on the necessity of reconsidering the methodological approaches, the types of interaction between students
and teachers and even the teaching environment itself. In this stage, the main accent of the paper is to illustrate the
infusion of the constructivist approach to the new media within the Social Studies teaching-learning contexts.
Finally, the article discusses some challenges, to both teachers and students in the development of Social Studies
classes according to the constructivist approach on the new media.
We hope to provide arguments in favour of a constructivist approach to the new media in the Social Studies
didactics.