Redes sociales y su influencia en la lectoescritura, octavo grado, Colegio Carmen Mora de Encalada, Pasaje 2023-2024

Abstract

This thesis entitled "Social networks and their influence on reading and writing in eighth grade students, at the Carmen Mora Encalada School, Pasaje, 2023-2024, constitutes an objective and updated investigation that was developed with the purpose of determining the influence of Social networks in student learning with emphasis on literacy. For this purpose, a purposeful investigation was developed, the product of which was synthesized in the development of a proposal entitled seminar-workshop to promote the appropriate use of social networks in the educational field in order to improve the reading-writing process in undergraduate and college students. Carmen Mora de Encalada, passage 2023-2024. Regarding the methodology used in this research, it corresponds to a quantitative and qualitative approach because the state of the art was established through the analysis of high-impact scientific articles published in indexed journals, the techniques applied are interviews and surveys of the research units, the first was applied to 3 teachers from the institution investigated through a guide of open questions and the survey to 96 boys and girls divided into extracts for which a multiple choice closed question questionnaire was used. The results of which were tabulated and interpreted in statistical tables and graphs. Regarding the research modality, it was documentary because bibliographic and field information was used because it intervened directly in the institution. Regarding the level, this was explanatory oriented to make known the reality of the object of study and explanatory given that the causal factors of the problem studied with its consequences were established and relationships were established between them. The results obtained in the research process determined that the most popular social networks, with the greatest influence and use in students, are Facebook and WhatsApp. It was also established that students who use these social networks are affected in their learning of reading and writing, developing in parallel. addictions to social networks, digital dependence and isolation. Faced with this, the need to promote the appropriate use of social networks was evident based on their advantages, among which it stands out that they allow the promotion of written expression, virtual interaction in educational communities and communication with teachers, on the other hand. The disadvantages are that they can create a bad habit with these media because they are not used correctly, which causes serious problems in learning. At the end of the research process, it was concluded that social networks are part of the daily lives of boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 12, In addition to promoting written expression and virtual interaction in educational communities, they constitute the two most significant advantages of the use of social networks in the reading-writing process of students. As for the disadvantages, digital addition and dependence stand out, for example. which makes gamification an alternative current and significant methodological strategy.