Optimización de la comprensión lectora mediante el desarrollo y la aplicación de ejercicios interactivos multimedia. Implementación del software Hot Potatoes en el área de español en el quinto grado de básica primaria de la Institución Educativa 4 de Julio de la ciudad de Pamplona.

Abstract

We live in a world transformed by contemporary technological advances, therefore, it is time to contrast the historical legacy of our pedagogy, with the possibilities of the world today, this in order to evolve towards the inescapable in the face of education Contemporary: the transformation of the classroom in the framework of "the knowledge society, in the internet age". In the last decades, the computer and telecommunications sectors have developed tools that, to the maximum extent, will benefit the pedagogy of the 21st century. In the present work, it is precisely a computer tool, a freeware, through which it is possible to strengthen one of the skills with which the teacher shows more problems every day in the training of his students: reading comprehension. Specifically, it is the "Hot Potatoes" tool, developed by the University of Victoria Humanities Center (UVIC) in Canada. A tool that consists of several sub-programs or default schemes (also called simply "potatoes") useful in the development of various types of interactive multimedia exercises. With this software it is also possible to host these exercises on a web page server or on a local machine and spread over the Internet, with the great advantage of being supported by all modern browsers (Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, etc.). As for the geographic location of the place selected to launch this project of design and implementation of activities with playful ICT-based, we are located in the educational institution July 4 in the city of Pamplona, Norte de Santander, Colombia. The specific population to intervene is the students of fifth grade of primary, composed of twenty (20) students, and is linked to the teaching staff in their accompaniment. The type of research carried out in this work is descriptive qualitative; Once its feasibility was verified it was developed in three stages: a diagnostic stage where the initial hypothesis can be verified: failures in the reading compression susceptible to improvement through the aforementioned software; A second stage of design, creation and start-up of the activities developed with the Hot Potatoes software; And a third and final stage: evaluation. The results obtained demonstrate that the tool Hotpotatoes is an effective resource in the optimization of reading comprehension.