Software Educativo

Universidad Nacional Experimental

 De los Llanos Occidentales

Ezequiel Zamora

UNELLEZ

 Educational software in your school

Bachiller:

Mendoza S Thais A C.I 17.661.503

Semestre: IX  Turno: noche

Barinas, Agosto del 2011

            Can you use educational software in your school?

      Educational software in school, is an essential tool for teaching and student learning, and that is designed especially structural programs can be used as learning educational strategies of any topic, we find interactive software, multimedia, videos, music, games and exercises.

     Educational software as support teaching activities in school is evidence of a favorable change in the educational system in our country because it is a valid alternative to offer the user an environment for knowledge construction.

            Technical feasibility

·         Provides individualized instruction. The student is not inhibited to ask question or repeat the same lesson several times.

·         Increases motivation and love of learning, promotes active teaching and learning, are encouraged to seek knowledge.

·         Provide a modular and highly adaptable teaching

·         Reduces training time, each going at their pace.

·         Improve learning, the student moves to news themes

·         Increase retention by combining images, graphics, etc, and presenting real life situation

·         Pedagogical consistency, quality of instruction does not change from one moment to another

·         Facilitate the assessment.

Advantages and disadvantages of using it.

 Advantages:

·         Is conducive to various types of learning that can be groups or individual.

·         Promotes the construction of knowledge and reflection by the reader.

·         Allow access to knowledge and participation in activities

·         Includes elements to capture the attention of student

·          It allows interaction and participation in the development of new ways through new elements through the use of interactive programs.

Disadvantages:

·         There must be a quality control or supervision of content.

·         Due to the ease of finding information through, this medium, student can use as a sole source and stop consult other sources such as books.

·         Some elements used to capture student attention can also acts as distracters

·         For some school in this case rural school is difficult access to computer programs and in many cases there is not electricity or there are other problems  

What kind of software will be more appropriate reasons?

     There is a variety of educational software which we use for student learning, I believe that learning the English language in primary school we use simulation and educational games because they both have the quality to support experimental learning, as a basis for achieving discovery learning.