Análisis del impacto de las redes sociales en la educación y su aporte en la formación de comunidades de aprendizaje

Abstract

This monographic work is the result of an investigation located within the pedagogical and didactic educational field. It is intended to argue bibliographically about the analysis and educational use of social networks such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, and TikTok, which used as ways of communication, contribute to the formation of learning communities. These communities are understood as social and educational transformation projects that insert various actors in the teaching-learning process. Social networks offer a range of didactic possibilities given their massive use and incursion of students of formative age. To carry on this work, a documentary and bibliographical research methodology was used, which consisted of selecting, collecting, analyzing and synthesizing information from books, scientific journals and theses on the topic. In this way, the study variables were related to contribute to the theory and objectives. In this stage, the variables were specified in chapters defined as follows: the first about social networks in education, the second covered thecontent of learning communities, and the third related the didactic use of social networks and communities of learning. It was concluded that it is necessary to reformulate the use of social networks to guide them towards educational objectives thanks to their scope andglobalization. In the same way, the learning communities fulfill the objective of improving educational quality within the framework of equity and justice.