Journal of Science and Research (Feb 2018)

Use of Technologies and Social Nets in the Formative Process of Superior Education

  • Karina Virginia Mero Suárez,
  • Edwin Joao Merchán Carreñoz,
  • Alexander José Mackenzie Rivero

DOI
https://doi.org/10.26910/issn.2528-8083vol3issCITT2017.2018pp77-83
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. CITT2017
pp. 77 – 83

Abstract

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Social networks and the uses of technologies for the training process have become indispensable tools in each of the educational scenarios of Higher Education. These resources together with what the web provides become new way of teaching and learning, in which learners become the protagonists of the teaching processes. The present work aimed to analyze the relevance of social networks and the uses of technologies in the educational function in each of the training scenarios in higher education. The importance of social networks was described, as well as the uses of new technologies, highlighting what is related to the strengthening of the new lists of the teacher and student, the interaction of students through each of the resources provided by the Web, and collaborative work, which has substantially favored learning. It was concluded that social networks plow tools that together with the new technologies plows welcomed by the students, constitute to support for the formation process, strengthening autonomy, cooperative work and knowledge management, converting new innovative spaces for new forms of teaching and learning. In addition to the great impact that the internet have and will in the development of new social networks in different contexts; and therefore, teachers cannot ignore them. In this sense, it should also be considered that teachers plow responsible for this change of attitude with respect to the new educational models where it there is the mission to it produces changes in the communicative environment before social uses of the network.

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