Technological tools applied in times of post-pandemic for the training of students in Ecuador

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic caused a massive closure of educational centers worldwide, where students had to find themselves in the need to adapt to the new technological era or virtual classes, where the teacher facilitator together with the student received their chairs at through a screen, and also the implementation of technological tools and equipment took over the educational space. That is why this paper aims to analyze the technological tools applied in post-pandemic times for the training of students in Ecuador. For this, a descriptive systematic review of original articles in Spanish and English was developed, applying a documentary design, a search strategy was drawn up with descriptors and inclusion and exclusion criteria to sift and select the most relevant studies. The participants were 120 students who, by means of a simple probabilistic random sampling analysis considering an error of 0.05 and a confidence level of 95%, a sample of 92 students was established. With the collection of research, it was obtained as a result that the most used device to receive classes in times of pandemic was the laptop with 61%, and where Teams and Zoom were the most used applications with 37%. In conclusion, it is detailed that the students had to become familiar with these new applications and where the Internet was one of the protagonists for the educational and pedagogical change of the students of Ecuador.