Grupo de Investigación: Informática Educativa y TIC. USAT

METACOGNITIVE SKILLS THAT ARE DEVELOPED IN THE COURSE OF METHODOLOGY OF INTELLECTUAL WORK AND USE OF USAT MOODLE PLATFORM, IN I CYCLE STUDENTS OF THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY Saint Toribio de Mogrovejo . CHICLAYO - PERU Summary Nowadays, teaching becomes increasingly complex and learning has become a challenging experience for students. To make that students reach their learning objectives, the teacher should have as a goal developing the suitable competences of the subject and enhance through pedagogical and technological activities the development of students’ metacognitive skills (awareness, control and autopoiesis). In order to achieve this purpose, this study was aimed at describing the correlation between metacognitive skills developed in the course of Methodology of intellectual work and the use of the Moodle platform USAT, students in cycle I the Catholic University of Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo . Chiclayo - Peru. 2011. To make this, a descriptive correlational s...

Fiorela Anai Fernandez Otoya Professor assigned to the Department of Science Education Distance Education Unit ¿Why do we have to use USAT virtual classroom? Today we have a global digitized world where technology is used for everything; is in this context that Distance Education Unit of USAT provided a workshop called Using the USAT Virtual Classroom and its utilities last month, to pilot group of USAT teachers with the purpose of raising awareness on the use of this important tool for their working lessons with students, allowing to appreciate the various competitive advantages offered by this virtual environment in the development of cognitive and metacognitive skills. By using the USAT virtual classroom, it starts from knowing how to design a didactic material, it should contribute to the skills of a particular subject; Also , the mentoring system is an essential element in a virtual learning environment whenever the student requires the accompaniment of the...

  Fiorela Anaa Fernandez Otoya Professor assigned to the Department of Science Education Member of USAT Distance Education Unit Learning in the Virtually The implications of the new information and communication technologies in education take diverse meanings  to discover and develop new ways of broaching the Teaching Learning Process (TLP) . The Virtually is a concept, which although is not the same, is associated with this technological impact into the educational world, whose applicability brings a benefit to education and other sectors, that means,   through this a new space, that computer and telecommunications have made ​​available to us, is promoted. The reflection on the educational use of virtual environments has just begun. Today researches are setting off on this important issue due to the demands that society requires. "The technology that enables virtual communities to have the ability to bring to any citizen an enormou...

The Paradigm of Virtual Higher Education in Latin America   Fiorela Anai Fernandez Otoya Professor assigned to the Department of Science Education Nowadays the Virtual Higher Education is making important changes denoted in the dynamic of its academic, social and personal projection. These changes are in line with the new requirements of a society that more and more is oriented to the management of knowledge as a main and essential resource in the production and wealth of nations. The Virtual Higher Education is still in process of development, this requires a commitment for the constant implementation and renovation of this tendency which further contribute in the improvement of educational and social processes that Latin America requires. The named Information and Knowledge Society has generated paradigms of knowledge management and implementation of new technologies due to the accelerated development of pedagogical and computing models. A more personalized e...

Fiorela Férnandez’s article published in Correo newspaper on October 22nd, 2008 The new technologies in teaching Maths. The technology has always been presented in humans’ lives and every day is changing and creating new ways to reach what is now called New Technologies (internet, video conferencing, virtual classrooms, electronic whiteboards, educational softwars, etc). Its potential lies not only in the benefits that it offers to the teaching and learning traditional patterns, but in all the changes that have occurred in the educational university environment. This is ratified by the terms "new technologies will not only transform the forms of communication between teachers and students or between them and the sources of knowledge, but they maybe will change the mindset in the learning of mathematics"(Lacruz, 2006); “The new technologies imply that teacher’s authority is based less on what he or she knows and more and more on the way he or she transmits what he or ...

Fiorela Fernandez Otoya Teaching Computing v.s Educational innovation . W e are currently witnesses and sometimes protagonists of a dazzling reality that carries the brand new track of the information society. In that sense, the learning process is vulnerable to dramatic tone offered by ICTs, which improve and motivate students’ learning. Today, the subject of Teaching Computing and Informatics is a real challenge for teachers, due to it is not only about transmitting knowledge about the area, but teaching to teach, in other words, to form a future professional that when he or she enters the stage of teaching can confront the various problems that occur with his/ her own students. Sanchez (2007), considers teaching as the "scientific discipline that explains the teaching - learning processes according to the achievement of educational goals" In this sense, the teaching coupled to any branch of human knowledge should be based on educational outreach goal...