Aplicación móvil como estrategia de evaluación en la materia de estudios sociales en décimo en la Escuela Alberto Cruz Murillo.

Abstract

The implementation of educational mobile applications (App) is increasingly used and implemented in school classrooms today according to Paida et al. (2020) analyzes digital reality as a resource that will exist in face-to-face or online education, which will be useful in education. Many teachers see the incorporation of resources due to the pandemic as a solution and others reaffirm that the use of technology in an appropriate way favors the academic process, they develop technological skills and this helps them achieve academic objectives and goals. In this new academic reality, due to the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID -19) virus, it has led to the use of mobile devices as one of the necessary pillars of online education. According to Barrera and Gualpi (2018), online education helps in innovation and technological changes due to the innovative alternatives that the student is given in their training and development of their learning. Due to these factors such as unemployment, salary reductions, social distancing among others, cell phones and tablets are the means economically accessible by students, but these devices can become a distracting focus, however, distractions have always existed in a way or other. For this reason, the use of a dedicated tool is very important for the teaching-learning process of subjects such as the Social Studies subject. Due to all this research, a mobile application called "Come and Educate yourself" was developed for the subject of social studies for mobile devices with the aim of being able to give feedback from the class and then evaluate the students in a more technological way, replacing the la traditional paper and pencil. The research was carried out to study the knowledge that students have regarding the App within the classroom as an evaluation resource in the School of Basic General Education Prof. Alberto Cruz Murillo and, on the other hand, to see how its implementation within of the classroom with the teacher and students, in order to improve it if necessary. This research is quantitative due to the collection of information from a study carried out on 25 students between thirteen and fourteen years old that corresponds to the tenth year of general basic. In the School of Basic General Education “Prof. Alberto Cruz Murillo ”in which the prototype of the Mobile App was tested. As a result of the research, it was found that there is a deficit in the use of applications as a technological resource by students in the classroom. The use of an application such as "Come and Educate yourself" has motivated them to appreciate in a different way when their knowledge is evaluated through an app. After analyzing the results of the surveys, it was found that the app's technical and design evaluations have been satisfactory, showing its ease of installation and its quality of presentation. Regarding pedagogical quality, the app is also valued positively due to its didactics and its great power in motivating the student to appreciate the knowledge obtained. That is why this research with the aim of a study.