Teaching Methodology And The Influence Of Digital Technology

Teaching methodology and the influence of digital technology

The massification of technology and its inclusion in all areas of development and human coexistence, have led in a vertiginous way, and in some cases forced to changes that can be considered high impact on teaching-learning methodologies, not only in theacademic areas but also in labor environments.

Changes in the way in which information is accessed, have been engine in the development of other skills in current generations, as well as their behavioral modifications;The high availability of information technologies, as well as the information itself at the moment in which it is generated, has meant changes in the way of contextualizing it, reaching the point where we can saturate ourselves, without having obtained a real benefit of the object object of the materialof the learning process.

Online teaching demands without a doubt that the "digital educator" is very scrupulous with the content he supplies, but it is obvious that this alone is not enough, he has the duty to provide his students with the necessary knowledge so that inThe possible can be kept safe from the dangers of the digital environment. With this, it is not only referred to the dangerous and morally inappropriate contents but also to the possibility that the student will be “nourished” with wrong information, assumed as true without the ability by the student to discern on the origin and theVeracity of the same.

Advantage of digital educational environments

Virtual education must be able to offer the student the advantages of face -to -face education, but without the limitations of it especially in regards to schedules, displacements, costs and flexibility.

To achieve this, the educational educator or institution uses LMS environments that offer these characteristics. LMS platforms can be under license or open source, both have the possibility of building centralized and controlled environments where the educator can monitor the performance of each of their students.

Coexistence in the virtual world

It is very important that students understand that the virtual world (as well as real) is governed by certain basic rules of behavior that have been called Netiqueta and refer to norms of behavior and behavior that are designed to make virtual environmentspleasant sites where the purpose is to share knowledge avoiding discord and misunderstandings among users of computer resources (forums). It should be understood that moral and legally inappropriate actions that are executed in the virtual environment can be legally and/or economic, therefore it is necessary that students have full awareness and knowledge of it;especially in terms of copyright or copyrights that protect much of the material available online.

Virtual education constitutes a conducive environment for the student to become an active resource in the process of building knowledge by sharing their learning experience with other members through available resources such as blogs, Ebordas and others.

The educator has the obligation to inform his students the current regulations regarding plagiarism as well as the rules that must be followed so as not to incur it when carrying out the proposed academic activities. Although virtual learning is a process even in development for a part of the population, it must be constituted as unifying technology, without distinction of sex creed or socio -economic level, a space to create and disseminate different knowledge globally.