Aplicación móvil como estrategia didáctica en la enseñanza de la asignatura de historia y ciencias sociales en la educación básica

Abstract

The current project has as its main theme mobile application as a didactic strategy in teaching the subject of history and social sciences in basic education, which was carried out in the Educational Institution "José de la Cuadra" located in the canton Balao belonging to the province of Guayas, it is worth mentioning that we have the participation of the graduate Segundo Ricardo Lindao Lindao in charge of the area of History and Social Sciences and the pleasant support of the students of the sixth year of basic parallel "C".

Due to the situation of the pandemic that was established since 2019, the educational teachings have taken new rhythms of learning and in a virtual way since all the centers and educational institutions were forced to close the doors of the campus leaving the face-to-face teachings as it was being established before the COVID-19 and moving to the virtual modality, In view of this situation, the authors of this project seek to encourage teachers to use new innovative and effective strategies in their classes with their students, making use of different applications, tools, resources or educational platforms in order to be in contact with technology and encourage communication and participation in students.

It is worth mentioning that in this new situation, teachers need to be trained in the technological era in order to be able to face the different changes and use technology to promote supports in the ASP, since students must be involved in the technological era so that they can develop new skills and abilities and be updated professionals in the new digital era.

It is worth mentioning that we used a mixed approach, that is, both quantitative and qualitative through an interview with the teacher of the Educational Institution and a survey to students of the subject of History and Social Sciences, we worked with a population of 27 students both male and female between nine and ten years of age.

Continuing, it is mentioned that for a correct performance of this prototype the MADAMDM methodology was used, which is a useful and effective methodology to develop the design within the application, allowing a correct construction in each of its sections of our prototype.

It is worth mentioning that the data collection instrument, allowed us to know the achievement and satisfaction obtained with the application from the teacher and students, since they were able to say that they liked the mobile app and would like to continue using it in different subjects, since they prefer to perform interactive activities, view dynamic videos, playful games allowing them to learn in a new way and in turn meet the proposed objectives.

Finally, it is mentioned that the mobile app "EDUJOYCY" was satisfactorily accepted by the teacher of the sixth year of basic parallel "C" thanks to the analysis and results were obtained this effective responses and evidence and congratulations from the teacher to the creation of the educational mobile application "EDUJOYCY".