Educational software tools

Educational software tools

1. Educational programs perform the basic functions of teaching media in general, and in addition, in some cases, depending on the form of use that the teacher determines, may provide specific functionality.

   • Functions that can make programs
     • Informational function
       • The majority of programs through its activities have contents that provide a structuring information on the reality of the students
     • Instructive function
       • All programs can orient and regulate the learning of students, since they can promote certain performances of them aimed to facilitate the achievement of specific educational goals
     • Motivating function
       • Usually students can feel attracted and interested in all educational software, since the programs may include elements to capture their attention, maintain interest, and when necessary, focus it towards the most important aspects of the activities
     • Evaluating function
       • The interactivity of these materials, allowed to respond immediately to the responses and actions of the students, you can make them particularly suitable to evaluate the work being done with them
     • Research function
       • Management programs can offer students interesting environments where do the following: they can find certain information, you can change the values of the variables of a system, etc.
     • Expressive function
       • Given that computers can process the symbols by which persons may represent knowledge and can communicate, the possibilities as an expressive instrument are very spacious
     • Metalinguistic function
       • Students learn their own computer languages through the use of programming languages and operating systems
     • Playful function
       • Working with the computer activities can be a task that often can have fun and festive connotations among students