Estrategia didáctica para la enseñanza de geografía en entornos virtuales

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected students and teachers, especially in urban and rural areas, who were bound to use technology to develop the teaching-learning process virtually. The confinement situation generated in teachers and students the need to use digital applications to teach subjects such as geography. From this situation, the objective of implementing a didactic strategy supported by the use of virtual environments for the learning of geography is established. The research design was quasi-experimental because it started with the strategy design for teaching Geography to children in the fourth year of Basic General Education, continued with the implementation of the strategy for eight weeks and finished with the process validation followed together with the students. The research main results affirm that the implementation implies starting from the availability of technological devices to connect together with an indicator such as the qualifications to understand where it starts; that the implementation has to be according to the curricular plans with a view to achieve the learning results and if technology is introduced, students will be motivated and interested to learn something new and their grades will be improved. In conclusion, Google Maps applied geography learning is effective because it allows to know cultures, tourist places, products of each region located in the rural places of the Ecuadorian Andes without physical displacements.