El internet como herramienta pedagógica para el fortalecimiento del aprendizaje autónomo.

Abstract

The current investigation bears the title "the internet as a pedagogical tool for the reinforcement of autonomous learning" which general goal is to design strategies using the internet as a pedagogical resource for the autonomous learning in the children of 5th grade of the "Instituto nacional de comercio" In this way a methodology that contains the quantitative focus with a descriptive level of 100 students and a sample of 40 participants, therefore the instrument used was a survey among the students which resulted in showing that the children from both genders have plenty of access to the internet and technological media, spending several hours using these tools without the supvervision of any responsible adult; it concluded that the students use the resources very well, they spend plenty of hours to surf social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp and Youtube. They prefer to search on the internet their homework and check textbooks or notes from previous years very seldom, very few times they request the help of an adult for an academic consultation, most of the students have social networks accounts which they use for entertainment.