Guía pedagógica a padres y educadores para contribuir en la educación en el uso de las tecnologías de la comunicación red social Facebook uso responsable, preventivo y educativo.

Abstract

This research entitled pedagogical guide to parents and educators to contribute to education through the use of communication technologies Facebook social network, and in which its general objective was to create a guidance guide for parents and educators of fifth grade students of the Guaimaral Technical Institute of the city of Cucuta; developed under the protection of the rights of children and pre-teens in digital social networks (generally in the context of new communication and information technologies). Methodologically, it was carried out under the applied qualitative approach, in the participatory action research method according to the model of Elliot (1993), the population consisted of twelve (12) teachers, (60) students and (60) parents belonging to the institution before mentioned and from which the key informants were taken. An interview was applied to teachers, a survey open to parents and students; structured by eight (8) items the interview, (12) items survey of parents of family and (14) items survey of students, having content validity and verified under the judgment of (2) two experts. Regarding the investigation, polarized positions were detected; some see a world of opportunities and others are anguished by conflicts and the use of their personal data. However, the predominant reaction arises when warning about the risks and vulnerability of children and preadolescents in cyberspace; almost all affirm the need of education, prevention and legislative reforms that include certain regulation since it is established in the rights of the children in the age of the Internet as a space of Right to the free expression) and in which the main expectation it is the maximization of the freedom of expression exposed in their rights.