IMPORTANCE OF THE USE OF DIGITAL RESOURCE (M-LEARNING) AS AN IMPLEMENT FOR TRAINING RESEARCH SKILLS IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

Currently, technologies within educational systems have marked a challenge, since they are important in teaching when they are incorporated into learning processes such as research skills in students. The following article has as its main objective to propose how research skills can be strengthened through observation, inquiry, information gathering and argumentation. The object of study was used to analyze the importance of new technologies used by first semester students of the early childhood assistants career of the Minuto de Dios University Corporation of the Municipality of Tibú, since different deficiencies were found in their academic performance, where they do not show interest in Spanish classes with a tendency towards research and few study habits, among others. Within the writing process, a qualitative methodology was used, which includes an orientation of the interpretive paradigm collecting information through the implementation of observation, inquiry and exploration. The development of a didactic unit proposed in sessions with learning content related to the topic of research, writing, analysis and paraphrasing is proposed. These activities were developed using the M-learnign platform. The implementation and evaluation led to the conclusion that research skills had an improvement and performance of 80% where at the beginning it was 30%. This shows that using technological tools and a pedagogical model plus a series of well-structured activities enhance the progress of research skills in students.