Google Maps como herramienta didáctica y su influencia en el aprendizaje de geografía en estudiantes de noveno año de básica superior de la Unidad Educativa Ovidio Decroly

Abstract

Abstract: Since its beginnings, the Google Maps tool appears with communication characteristics, today it is a potential digital resource with interactivity alternatives in the educational field for classroom activities, especially in the subject of Social Studies, a subject where it is currently necessary to intervene active methodologies to discard the boring and routine of its extensive contents. The present research aims to determine whether the use of Google Maps as a didactic tool influences the learning of Geography of students in the ninth year of Higher Basic Education. It is a field research with a mixed approach methodology because the data obtained are quantitative and qualitative. The information obtained in this work serves as a fundamental basis to motivate reflection on the use and implementation of didactic resources for the teaching-learning process. The result of the analysis applied to the data obtained shows that Google Maps, when used as a didactic resource, has a significant influence on the improvement of student learning; the Social Studies teacher can include this tool in his strategic role and implement didactic alternatives to guarantee significant learning.