Consumo de videojuegos educativos en estudiantes de quinto año de educación básica de la Escuela Abdón Calderón, año 2021

Abstract

This investigative work, a case study modality, has as a problem analyzing the consumption of educational video games in students of the Fifth year of Basic Education of the Abdón Calderón Garaicoa School, of the Pasaje canton, during the first quarter of the year 2021. , especially so that professionals and students take it into consideration as an object of study, since it is of great importance that the educational community is part of the emerging digital culture. Faced with this context, it was determined that the research topic is novel because it can be used as a digital tool for educational professionals today, since video games are becoming part of current education and the new lifestyle of the human being. Moreover, after the health emergency caused by the COVID-19 virus, the global technological system became even more activated due to the confinement that it has caused. What was once optional today is a prevailing need, mainly for the educational system in the active teaching-learning process, highlighting that communication and technology work together, since through it great changes have been created in humanity. From this scheme, a case study was carried out whose qualitative-quantitative research applied the following techniques: bibliographic review, document design, interviews and surveys. For this, five public-sources of information were taken into account (experts in digital and multimedia communication, child psychologists, teachers, parents and students). The results show the importance of video games, since they help to increase motivation in learning, and thus the student can acquire knowledge of attractive tide and contributes to the development of their digital skills. In this regard, experts in digital and multimedia communication announced that video games develop the GBL (Game based learning) methodology and contribute to an adaptation of students to the new dynamics of play and educational gamification. The experts also mentioned that it is important that this methodology is explained to parents so that it does not cause problems for teachers or the centers that intend to implement them. While child psychologists indicated that video games are an educational tool that allows students to develop meaningful competencies in their virtual learning processes, as well as allowing the teacher to consider as a first step what they want to teach and according to this, seek a video game that serves as an instrument to motivate and obtain their respective learning objectives. Regarding the surveys, it is observed that most of the boys and girls of the Abdón Calderón Garaicoa Educational Unit, in the Fifth Year of Basic Education, have had contact or know how to clearly identify what a video game is since at some point in their lives they have played with him and in some of the cases they have a continuous interaction with him. As a conclusion, therefore, the educational use of video games on virtual platforms is recommended during synchronous and asynchronous classes.