ICT Profile of Students of the UNACAR’s Bachelor of Education
Abstract
The central objective of this text is to publicize the profile of first semester students of the Bachelor of Education degree of the Universidad Autonoma de Carmen (Unacar) about individual and collective skills, knowledge and material conditions for the use of information and communication technologies (TIC). For this, a quantitative research was carried out, with a descriptive scope. The instrument, a survey with 20 questions of multiple choice, was based on the Questionnaire about the uses of TIC among University students in Barcelona (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2006), which was adapted to the characteristics of the population under study, the particular conditions of universities in Mexico, as well as the area where this study is performed, A non-random sample of 52 students of the first two admission groups from February to July 2019 was selected, of the education degree from UNACAR, located in the state of Campeche, The results obtained indicate that, of the total sample, 44% remain connected to the Internet from 13 to 20 hours per week. Likewise, 50% of the respondents do not have personal computer at home, so they carry out their homeworks in a internet cafe (33%) or at the university (25%). Despite the fact that 44% started using the computer between 3 and 10 years of age, only 19% use it for academic activities; 75% use the Internet to communicate with their classmates by email, fundamentally. In addition, 46% have not participated in online forums or have experience in various computer programs; 49% use the Internet only to search for information for classes. in spite of everything, 92% of students consider the use of TIC very important in their profession future.
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