"SCIENTIC TIC" program for strengthening the investigative skills in five-year-old children

Abstract

It is true that research skills are developed throughout life, however, it is the duty of schools to promote and encourage children from childhood to develop these problem-solving skills, whose process is the problematization, analysis, solution and verification of problematic situations. We must also highlight the use of scientific ICT as a virtual pedagogical resource, which allowed us to develop scientific thinking skills in children. We seek to apply the "scientific ICT" program to strengthen research skills in five-year-old children. An experimental type of research was carried out, whose design was pre-experimental, the non-probabilistic sampling represented children28 of initial education, who worked with the "Scientific Tic" program, executing pedagogical activities to develop scientific skills in children, making use of digital platforms; descriptive and inferential statistics and SPSS hypothesis testing were applied. The results show that the implementation of the Scientific ICT program had a significant influence on the achievement of research skills in children. It is concluded that the application of the scientific ICT as a pedagogical resource does develop scientific skills.