La herramienta digital “Canva” para la enseñanza de la Historia, con los estudiantes del subnivel básica media de la Escuela de Educación General Básica “San Isidro labrador "de la parroquia Picaihua, del cantón Ambato

Abstract

Technological tools have been gaining prominence in classrooms due to their ability to facilitate and improve teaching and learning processes. One of these tools is Canva, valued for its usefulness and various templates. The present research aims to analyze the impact of the digital tool Canva on the teaching of History. The study design was a longitudinal quasi-experimental approach with two groups: a control group and an experimental group. A mixed-method approach was used, combining qualitative and quantitative techniques, with both bibliographic and field modalities, associated with descriptive and explanatory-causal levels. The techniques used for data collection were surveys, interviews, pretests, and posttests. The study involved a population of 37 students from three grades of the middle sublevel and one Social Studies teacher. In the statistical analysis, the Student’s t-test for independent samples was applied to the pretest, and the Mann-Whitney U test was used for the posttest due to the lack of normality in the experimental group. The results showed that the experimental group, which used Canva, improved their performance from an average of 6.10 to 8.80, while the control group only increased from 6.00 to 6.82. Therefore, it is concluded that the use of the digital tool Canva positively influences the teaching of History with students in the middle sublevel.