Educating with responsibility: didactic application about the knowledge of gastronomy on Ecuador

Abstract

Today’s technology has a big impact in the field of education because it allows improving teaching process. Some teachers use technological tools and strategies because they considered those tools and devices facilitate teaching process. Also, students are familiar with technology, so that they do not have problems to handle innovative devices to improve their learning process. Therefore, the research project aim is to identify which didactic application is used to provide the knowledge of gastronomy on Ecuador. At first it was necessary to analyze some didactic applications in order to select the best one for teaching vocabulary of gastronomy. The second part was to design a didactic application using the program Dreamweaver. Finally, students had the opportunity of practicing the vocabulary of gastronomy using the didactic application to evaluate the effectiveness of it. Moreover, this investigation had a qualitative-quantitative approach and it used a descriptive and experimental methodologies. The collected data was through applying surveys to 30 students from seventh grade at Unidad Educativa “Sergio Quirola” in order to get information for analyzing, interpreting, and explaining the problem in the investigation process. After, the data was tabulated and represented in graphics. Before, it was analyzed. Consequently, the obtained results in this research showed that didactic applications influence not only in the acquirement and development of vocabulary but also improve in their learning process.