desarrollo de una aplicación móvil como herramienta de gamificación para fomentar la participación activa en la asignatura de matemáticas de 10mo "a" del colegio de bachillerato alejandro castro benítez

Abstract

This research is based on designing a mobile application to encourage the active participation of students in the subject of Mathematics, which is designed in the programming tool called Scratch, based on this allowed the creation of the interface and in turn the structure of the mobile application. We must take into account that the research was directed to the students of 10th grade "A" of the High School "Alejandro Castro Benítez" in the city of Machala, Province of El Oro, the decision was made to conduct the research in both quantitative and qualitative approach in order to validate this research in a clear and precise way, The instruments that were used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the mobile application and the active participation of students in the classroom were the interview with the tutor teacher of the subject and the survey of the students, thus giving favorable results according to the objectives of the research. It should be noted that with the execution of this research report it has been proposed to implement gamification tools with the correct use of the students, in addition to applying the mobile application in the students in favor of active participation, without forgetting that in such a way an active teaching method will be used within the classroom which allows to enhance the different skills and competencies that the students possess. In addition, the educational needs of the students were identified together with the grade tutor, and the contents where the students had the greatest difficulty in understanding the contents were applied. For this purpose, the topics chosen in the mobile application were carried out taking into account several important and useful aspects within the mobile application such as interactive presentations, feedback, gamification games where students have a greater interest in the contents and likewise improve the development within the classroom, it is worth mentioning that the methodology used for the implementation of the prototype was the PACIE methodology, which involves the sequential processes on which this methodology is based: (P) Presence, (A) Outreach, (C) Training, (I) Interaction and (E) Elearning. Therefore, a survey directed to the students and an interview directed to the teacher of the subject was conducted, this first approach was executed in person where the research was carried out, also aspects and suggestions were made known in order to improve the mobile application in terms of design, videos and content, after the experience with the teacher, the recommendations were taken into account, to give way to the second interaction with the students where the demonstration and evaluation of the prototype was performed in order to collaborate the objectives set out in the research and in turn encourage the active participation of students in the mobile application as a gamification tool, for which the students responded in favor of the prototype thus achieving the expected results in a favorable way.