Adverse consequences in learning due to the inappropriate use of current technological tools

Abstract

Technology within the educational field can be understood as the set of resources, processes and tools related to Information and Communication Technology (ICT), designed to achieve the scope that each institution projects, without neglecting the strategies emanating from the educational system in its various spaces and levels. The objective of the work is to document publications related to the use and abuse of ICTs, in the teaching-learning process at any educational level. The methodology is of a documentary type, using hermeneutics as an analytical method. The results denote that the adverse consequences resulting from the incorrect use of ICT stand out: distraction and dispersion of students given the infinity of existing options that leads them to non-productive areas such as online games. Accumulating excessive information produces an overflow in terms of the amount of knowledge, leaving aside the correct use of the saturation element that each student knows to determine when the search should stop. The conclusions highlight the infinities of unreliable information on the Internet, which when not verified cause distortions in the various contextualization that the student addresses. The works that students generally present are copies of texts found on the Web, losing the investigative sense that enriches knowledge feeds the lack of creativity. For digital information to become effective knowledge, it is important that educators take ownership in the reconstruction of comprehensive learning.