Interactive Tomi Tool To Improve Attitudes Towards Cyberbullying In Upper Basic Students

Abstract

Education changes frenetically at the pace of technological advances, likewise there are a series of difficulties that must be faced to avoid falling into cyberbullying that is converted into a way of discriminating against children and adolescents of any social class, the abuse of ICT exposes schoolchildren to this type of violation, where parents and teachers often do not know when a student is being a victim. This article aims to determine the effectiveness of the interactive TOMi tool in improving the attitudes of cyberbullying in students. of an Educational Unit, La Concordia - Ecuador 2023. The approach was quantitative, with a quasi-experimental design, using an intentional non-probabilistic sample of 30 students for the experimental group and 30 students for the control group. The instrument applied was the "European Cyberbullying Intervention Project Questionnaire", validated under the judgment of experts; reaching a coefficient of 0.75 in Cronbach's alpha, the data were displayed in frequency distribution tables and analyzed inferentially. It was concluded that the interactive TOMi tool positively influenced the improvement of attitudes towards cyberbullying in the students where the intervention was carried out.