Influence of the pedagogical use of Smartphone in rural Colombian schools in the Covid-19 Pandemic. Teachers' perceptions

Abstract

In the context of the pandemic caused by COVID-19, many countries had to close their schools at all academic levels and take distance education as the only alternative, using ICT tools that allow synchronous and asynchronous communication, as is the case of Smartphones. The present applied research, using the hypothetical deductive method, quantitative approach, a non-experimental correlational design, had as main objective to determine the influence of the pedagogical use of Smartphone in academic performance and virtual education in secondary and technical middle school, in rural educational institutions in the municipality of Toledo, department of Norte de Santander, Colombia, during the 2020 pandemic. This was carried out through the application of the survey technique to collect datausing as an instrument a questionnaire of 24 questions in Likert scale, additionally the qualifications were taken in five fundamental areas of the population that are 5 complete educational institutions of the municipality of Toledo, department Norte de Santander. The data were statistically processed using SPSS V25 software, allowing to observe the significant influence that the pedagogical use of the Smartphone has on academic performance and virtual education in rural educational institutions in the midst of the 2020 pandemic.