This research was carried out in the Limbania Velasco Educational Institution, located in Santander de Quilichao, Cauca, Colombia, with students and group leaders of third grade, morning session, and eighth grade, afternoon session, during the 2008-2009 school year. The general goal was to analyze the factors which limit coexistence in schools with the purpose of validating psycho-social practices and strategies which ...

This article presents the role and place of teacher and student in the contemporary interest in educational computing research, plus the massive inclusion of information technology and communication in a school context.From an approach to implementation and development of information technologies and communication in educational contexts as a contemporary phenomenon raises the idea of a research methodology that it’s ...

This article presents the evolution of an information system created as part of the research project “Scientific Visibility and Development- The Who´s Who in Research at UNAD”. It describes its components, explains its impact on the research process, its operational structure, and emphasizes the application of Information Technology innovation to information management.

Leaning to Discussion Grupos' technique, the authors present a brief overview about to how the school community of Castilla la Nueva (Meta, Colombia) assumes technology and what kind of uses and appropriations of the Internet and laptop rest in such technological approaches. Also, the participant’s opinions highlights in matters relating to the understanding, leisure and identity, they find in that technology’s expressions ...

This paper presents a literature review on the topic of modeling productive chains in order to find some answers to questions such as whether the system dynamics is appropriate for modeling productive chains and if it is relevant program models or use specialized software for that purpose.Initially a brief lecture on the theme of the models and how these can be seen is presented to the reader, showing that even concepts ...

The difficulties teaching and learning computer programming have been a worldwide recurrent topic for the last twenty years. The community of computer science educators has proposed a vast number of approaches but, unfortunately, none of them has been truly effective. To the motivational issues suffered by the students, we have to add the absence of a serious study regarding the skills and abilities they have to develop, ...

This article shows the results, advances and projections from this investigation, obtained during the last years, concerning to the bilingual/bicultural after-school activity proposal, confined in a topic called The Magic Class. This pedagogical innovation, made with several communities in the San Pascal American Ethnic Group, in California, follows the Vygotzky´s theories about the game factor involved in the development ...

The aim of this work is to describe and illustrate the use of different kinds of arguments in a communicative setting as the focus group. We will show the pertinence of studying ways of deliberation in relation to ways of arguing in the debate. After that, we will analysethe architecture of arguments displayed by a group of women attending an adult literacy course, extracted from a research ran in Seville (Spain), about ...

Recientemente se celebraron los 228 años de la insurrección comunera liderada por gente de esta bravía tierra. Entre ellos se destacaron José Antonio Galán y Manuela Beltrán quienes se manifestaban contrarios al mandato déspota de la corona española. Este artículo pretende ser una especie de homenaje al pueblo del gran Santander que ha demostrado su tesón y carácter fuerte a través de la historia, forma de ser que ...

The present speech is making from two technological metaphors, RESET and F5 (Refresh), where mainly the trouble of TIC’s necessity at the present school context is exposed. Starting from a theoric reviewing of the necessity concept with some writers contribution like Fresneda and Max Neef, where, clearly, the difference between necessities, satisfactors and possessions is founded. This first part is metaphoric understanding ...