Entornos emergentes de aprendizaje, redes sociales: 2020–2021 – Unidad Educativa Particular – Parroquia Eloy Alfaro – Sector Sibambe

Abstract

This paper aims to demonstrate the growing use and level of satisfaction of social networks, as emerging educational environments, for the construction of meaningful and sustainable learning, in high school students of the private educational unit of Eloy Alfaro, during the 2020-2021 school year. The work is based on the methodology of mixed approach and the type of research is exploratory - descriptive. The main findings were that the students consider that social networks have been key to acquiring new knowledge immediately and staying connected with their classmates and teachers. After analyzing the results, it was found that the social network with the highest satisfaction among students and teachers is WhatsApp, while the most used platform for online classes is Zoom. Through them, they were able to obtain a good academic performance during the year in question.