App como recurso didáctico para la enseñanza - aprendizaje de los estudiantes de cuarto A en la asignatura de C.N.

Abstract

handled almost immediately that basic education schools use new learning strategies to strengthen and motivate their students to learn, the incorporation of mobile applications would be an innovative and didactic strategy that would inculcate students to be participatory and active in the classroom. The involvement of didactic resources in the classroom gives way to a learning scenario involved in learning, this is due to the fact that students consider innovative the use of different technological tools such as the use of mobile applications to reinforce learning in Natural Sciences. In relation to the above, the following research problem was posed as a question: What would be the impact of implementing a mobile application as a didactic resource for the learning of Natural Sciences for fourth grade students of the "Santo Tomas de Aquino" Private Educational Unit of the Arenillas Canton? To solve this question posed as a problem, the following research objective was generated Implement an educational App as a didactic resource for the teaching-learning of the subject of natural sciences in fourth grade students of the "A" parallel of the "Santo Tomas de Aquino" Private Educational Unit of the Arenillas Canton. The research problem was taken according to the learning needs in the subject of Natural Sciences due to the fact that students are not motivated to learn because the use of teaching strategies is very treacherous and memoristic causing fatigue in students. The research used practical and theoretical methods with a qualitative and quantitative approach in order to provide feedback to the information obtained by the teacher and students, since statistical data do not provide figures that we can interpret, the qualitative approach allows us to integrate our opinions according to an analysis of the answers given by the interviewee. Among the results of the research we found that the mobile application as a didactic strategy effectively helped students to strengthen the learning of Natural Sciences, as evidenced in the question "If you believe that the mobile application improves the learning of Natural Sciences" in which 100% of acceptability was obtained, as well as in the question "The design of the application" which effectively had 100% of acceptability demonstrating that the mobile application is suitable to improve the learning of Natural Sciences. In conclusion, the use of the mobile application is directed as a didactic strategy to improve the learning of Natural Sciences, motivating students in their teaching-learning process, showing that a well-directed mobile app can be useful in education, especially if it is directed to be implemented from basic education, which corresponds to students from second to seventh grade.