Google Digital Tools for the Teaching-Learning Process in Schoolchildren of the Last Grade of Regular Basic Education of Pucallpa – Peru

Abstract

Given the need to carry out actions that counteract the consequences of the pandemic generated by COVID-19, the educational institutions that provide training services at different levels and modalities were closed, including regular basic education; That is why this reality forced the implementation of education under the remote system, deriving the benefit of digital tools for the realization of the teaching-learning processes, one of these being those provided by Google. Thus, this article aims to explain the usefulness of Google tools for learning according to schoolchildren in the last grade of regular basic education of an educational institution in the city of Pucallpa in the jungle of Peru. For the purposes of this research, a qualitative approach and the hermeneutical method were followed, which allowed interpreting the responses of 40 school informants, in three subcategories: organization of school responsibilities, possibilities of interaction and use in curricular areas. It was concluded that the usefulness of Google tools for learning was null in terms of the organization of school homework, as it focuses on messaging through Gmail email accounts and the search and discovery of information. regarding the duties or tasks entrusted by teachers in the teaching-learning process.