Aplicación móvil como recurso de retroalimentación mediante la gamificación para 9no EGB en la asignatura de ciencias naturales

Abstract

In recent years, education has undergone many changes, where technology has gained strength within the classrooms to improve study methodologies and redesign the curricular plans of educational institutions, since 2020, with the arrival of In the Covid-19 pandemic, the use of technology as a learning resource has become normalized, making room for new ways of teaching to strengthen the discrepancies of traditional models. The use of mobile applications is expanding within the educational system as the main technological resource used by teachers in their pedagogical chairs, this research arises as a support for teachers to be able to provide feedback on the contents of their classes in the subject of Science Natural, also so that students can learn through gamification, allowing them to adapt to the needs of the educational system, in addition to being able to learn at their own pace and continue studying so as not to be left with academic gaps. The prototype developed in this research was implemented in the Private Educational Unit "Hermano Miguel" in the city of Machala, with the participation of 19 students from the 9th year EGB "B" and the Institutional teacher in charge of the Natural Sciences subject, within In this educational context, the problem of lack of use of mobile applications that serve to provide feedback on the content taught by the teacher through gamification was found, therefore the main objective was to analyze the influence of a mobile application as a feedback resource through gamification for 9th EGB students in the Natural Sciences subject of the “Hermano Miguel” Private Educational Unit of the Machala canton. Through the implementation of the mobile application "The Explorer" it was possible to strengthen the contents of the Natural Sciences course, allowing students to provide feedback on their knowledge through gamification. The methodology used in the present titration work was design-based research, focused on the qualitative-quantitative approach, where the union of these two allowed the analysis, collection and mixing of data, by means of the qualitative approach, direct observations were made. to the educational context, managing to find the central problem, by means of the quantitative approach, the quantification of the data obtained in the first and second experiences was carried out. The first experience served to present the prototype to the educational institution, with the presence of the institutional teacher and the area teacher, both members of the “Hermano Miguel” Private Educational Unit, who gave recommendations and suggestions to improve the prototype. In the second experience, the prototype was presented to the students with the improvements suggested by the teachers in the first experience, experience two had the participation of 19 students from the 9th EGB “B”, together with the institutional teacher of the Natural Sciences subject, the vice-rector of the educational institution and the tutor of the present investigation. The results obtained from the survey carried out in the second experience determine that the mobile application "The Explorer" obtained a positive influence as a feedback resource through gamification, achieving the proposed objectives of this research.