Technological applications in the service of higher education

Abstract

This article shows how technological applications have become an educational tool for strengthening educational and pedagogical processes at the Catholic University of Colombia. For this, a descriptive investigation was carried out, which sought to relate or recount characteristics and properties of a specific object, subject or situation, avoiding value judgments in pursuit of objectivity. The investigation took a qualitative approach, because this allows us to give an account of an active, systematic and rigorous process of directed inquiry, in order to understand the objective of some technological applications in the service of education. The field work was carried out with students (men and women) enrolled in subjects of the humanities department of the Catholic University of Colombia, who are students of at various stages of study and abilities and who have been pioneers in this educational-pedagogical process along with the technological applications (Wix Page, QR Codes, Kahoot and Pixtón) for the development and deepening of the subject, as a support to the student learning process through play. The result shows that there is a pedagogical process of invisibilization with regard to new technologies, with their characteristics and advances towards better performance in higher education, so the great challenge today is to educate and train students using the technological tools that accompany them in their daily lives, which they carry in their veins, that is, they are their life.