App móvil para desarrollar habilidades lectoras en estudiantes de tercer grado de básica de la Unidad Educativa Manuela Cañizares

Abstract

Nowadays, innovating in education is synonymous with working with the so-called Information and Communication Technology (ICT), due to the multiple benefits they provide, such as enhancing interest in certain subjects, facilitating the communication process, increasing motivation, interaction, among other benefits. In addition, ICT provide a myriad of resources, among these, highlights the applications, because they can be run from various mobile devices such as smartphones, iPad or Tablets, these devices bring certain advantages in terms of its use, because they have features such as being ubiquitous, accessibility for many users, as well as the internet network connection by various means, highlighting mainly in these aspects, which is why in the last decade have been gaining strength within the education system, in response to solve certain academic problems. In contemporary times, projects for the empowerment of the use of technology in the educational field are being developed to a great extent, therefore, the following research is focused on how to improve the development of reading skills in children between 7 and 8 years old by means of mobile applications, such skills to be developed are defined by the Ministry of Education (MinEduc), being the main one; reading comprehension. Mobile applications have been integrated into everyday life, so it is not convenient to leave them aside in the so-called digital era, therefore, the objective of the following research is to analyze the advantages offered by mobile applications in the development of reading skills for students in the third year of general basic education. The research was conducted through theoretical methods that served as a foundation in the development of the mobile application, starting from a determination of pedagogical strategies, to the structural identification that a mobile application oriented to education should have. In addition, several data collection instruments were used, such as an open interview through the PNI technique directed to the institutional authorities, and a survey directed to the students, allowing the assessment of aspects and functional characteristics of the prototype. To carry out the development of the mobile application, the ADDIE methodology was considered, which involves the analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation, key phases for the assessment of the prototype, which together with the methodology extreme programming (XP), allowed the construction of the prototype and make the corresponding improvements. The consequent research developed in the Manuela Cañizares Educational Unit, in the city of Pasaje, with its main population being the students of the third year of general basic education, obtained through surveys, positive results in terms of the liking and/or acceptance of the ReadingPractice mobile application by the users to whom it was destined, in addition the levels of skills of the students were assessed through small evaluations, with a before and after the use of the prototype in order to verify if the development of a mobile application oriented to develop reading skills was really fruitful.