Aplicación web para el mejoramiento del aprendizaje en la asignatura de ciencias naturales en el Colegio de Bachillerato Pasaje

Abstract

The present research work was developed in the high school "PASAJE" located in the city of Pasaje, province of El Oro, thanks to the very attentive collaboration of the teacher who teaches the subject of social sciences and with the support of the students of the tenth year of basic in parallel "A". Due to the arrival of the pandemic caused by COVID-19, all educational institutions in the province opted to close the doors and migrate all their educational processes to an online communication medium using various technological means and technologies that provide spaces for asynchronous interaction. For this reason, teachers were involved in a common dilemma regarding the management and implementation of information and communication technologies or also identified by the acronym ICT. ICTs bring with them a wide range of resources, tools and enriched virtual scenarios that teachers can make use of in their teaching work, managing to maintain the attention and motivation of students, benefiting the teaching and learning process and achieving significant learning in students. It should be emphasized that this new generation is booming new technologies and each time they are promoting the creation of new educational scenarios which generates a new need which is to have in our classrooms teachers trained to make use of the same for a correct implementation inside and outside a classroom, the teacher must have the necessary skills in the mastery of technologies and be able to manage their planning and curricular plans in which include resources and techno educational tools to promote the teaching-learning process. The main objective of this research is to implement a web application as a gamification resource within the educational processes of natural science classes, through the development of gamified virtual scenarios established on the ClassCraft platform. ClassCraft is a Canadian platform which aims to promote the easy creation of gamified environments in which dynamic classes are developed, keeping students' interest and motivation. One of the main features of this platform is the virtuality, students have the freedom to choose a trade to customize the main features of their avatar appearance, while they are fulfilling each of the announced objectives board are rewarded with experience points the same points that can be used to raise the level of the attributes of his character. In order to achieve success in this research, it was of vital importance to use qualitative and quantitative approaches mediated by pretest and posttest research methods to evaluate the implementation of the prototype developed with the Classcraft platform, this methodological process based on its nature requires the implementation of interviews and surveys to the defined population corresponding to a total of 37 students belonging to the tenth year of parallel "A". In the development of the prototype, the use of the ADDIE instructional design methodology was established, which provides a descriptive guide oriented to the construction of tools oriented to education, the phases of this methodology are composed of analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation, being an agile methodology, it helps to speed up the development of deliverables in the short term and with low consumption of resources. Based on the results acquired during the implementations of the prototype during the first and second experience, it was possible to identify that the prototype does favor the teaching and learning process, being a feasible means to improve the teaching of contents in natural science classes.