Investigación documental sobre las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación en educación básica

Abstract

This article aims to review some research on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Basic Education, taking into account different articles published in well-known journals which are included during the last ten years in the Iberoamerican Data Bases. The main themes arise from socio-cultural changes and the emerging impact that ICT have unleashed in today’s society or knowledge society, they involve new challenges within the education system that lead to teaching practices meet the needs of the context, globalization and technological development. A methodological perspective of documentary research with a qualitative approach was used in this project and it was based on the reading, analysis, reflection and interpretation of relevant data found in the epistemological field of pedagogy scientific articles, it has allowed to demonstrate positive results regarding to implementation ICT in education that enable significant progress in order to implement an alternative, inclusive and a global school. To reach this purpose it is essential to establish standards or curriculum guidelines about pedagogical, didactic and cognitive constructs, to guide and support teachers to improve the use of these tools in the educational process, taking into account their potential for learning that allow students to face a new role where they can be more active and autonomous as well as to implement public policies such as equal access, training and updating of teaching strategies to solve problems about this aspect.