Incidencia de las TIC en el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes de estudios sociales, de octavo de Educación General Básica

Abstract

Abstract: In contemporary education, information and communication technologies constitute a fundamental ally to improve the teaching-learning process, in this perspective the present study considers the Incidence of ICT on the academic performance of students of social studies, Education General Basic, which aims to determine the incidence of ICT on the academic performance in social studies of eighth grade students of basic general education, to support the design of a proposal for educational improvement. With a quantitative qualitative design, a field study was carried out applying an interview to the eighth grade social studies teacher and a survey of 23 grade students, demonstrating that ICTs have a profound impact on the teaching-learning of social studies; that in the eighth grade of EGB the use of ICT is limited to elementary technological tools such as slide shows and word processors. The investigation is closed by designing a proposal for pedagogical intervention that inserts didactic strategies based on ICT to teach and learn curricular contents of social studies.