Las tics en el aprendizaje de las ciencias naturales en estudiantes de octavo año de educación básica.

Abstract

ICT'S IN THE LEARNING OF NATURAL SCIENCES IN EIGHTH YEAR OF BASIC EDUCATION STUDENTS OF THE SCHOOL "OCTOBER NINE" OF THE CANTON MACHALA." For several years, the world has lived a digital age that has modified many of the ways of life and social development, changing habits, customs and forms of interaction; The educational system is not the exception to this technological boom in which we live, since it has also been influenced in multiple ways in its development and mode of action, becoming a daily tool of educational work, used to direct pedagogical, didactic and methodological actions that Allow the teaching-learning process to be operationalized, being able to be used by teachers and students in multiple ways. This antecedent leads to an investigative analysis that allows determining how this technological advance of information and communication is being used in the educational system, in particular how teachers use these technological references for the development of their classes, specifically considering the area of natural sciences in the eighth year of basic education, taking into consideration whether with this application of ICTs the teaching of students is improved, understanding that we live and coexist with this technological advance. The methodology used in the present investigation corresponding to the use of the synthetic analytical method, which is operationalized through the application of primary and secondary sources to obtain and properly channel the information obtained, the main ones are related to the direct observation technique and other research instruments, the secondary ones referring to truthful bibliographic sources and of scientific quality, with which an adequate abstraction of information is guaranteed, this input being important for what the rest of the research implies. Regarding the type of research, this could be defined as phenomenological, qualitative - quantitative, descriptive. Based on the results obtained and with an established diagnosis, product of the information survey carried out at the “Nueve de Octubre” school in the El Oro province of the Machala canton, where it was established that there is a deficiency in the use of ICTs in the area of natural sciences by the teacher, which limits in a certain way the development of dynamic, participatory and above all motivating learning, considering the new tendencies that young people have towards the use of technology. It has been considered feasible to propose, based on the research input generated, to support through the strengthening of teachers through training, which will significantly contribute to improving their pedagogical management, which will lead to improving the learning of the students of this educational institution, which by another part will be strengthened by having teachers trained to face the technological challenges that currently demand its permanent and increasingly relevant use. The research responds structurally to scientific requirements, aligned with the structure of an integrating project, fundamentally established in the identification of a problem, object of study, theoretical foundation, built on determined variables and related to the use of ICTs, by means of which the teaching strengthening proposal was designed and planned.