Analysis of ICT use during the pandemic among pupils

Abstract

The new COVID-19 virus is a disease infection that unleashes a global pandemic in mid-May 2020, which presents a mandatory social distancing and the impossibility of being a group of people in the same place, consequently, the student body is forced to adapt to non-presential means to continue with the practice of teaching, thus adopting the use of digital platforms and the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). The main objective of the present research is to show the difficulties and technological skills of students, their problems, needs and the adjustments that have had to be carried out throughout these semesters of online classes at the higher education level, specifically in the Academic Unit of Biological Sciences (UACB) of the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (UAZ). The advantages and disadvantages in their education were identified, analysing through structured surveys the acquisition of knowledge in the area of computer science and digital skills. Since this is a unit where there are not only theoretical classes, but also practical ones, it is expected to know in broad terms the contrasts and educational shortages of this small sector of the student population, as well as the possible side effects that will have long-term consequences through a statistical program performing an exploratory analysis with structured surveys, using cross tables and factor analysis.