Propuesta metodológica para el diseño de un software educativo aplicado al proceso enseñanza-aprendizaje en niños de 11 a 13 años con discapacidad intelectual moderada de la ciudad de Riobamba.

Abstract

Methodologies for the development of educational software give more value to the implementation and less importance to the stages of development, from this analysis, it was proposed a methodology for the design of an educational software applied to the process teaching-learning in children 11-13 years with moderate intellectual disability from the city of Riobamba. MESEDIM (Design Methodology of educational software to moderate intellectual disability) is base on the Peré Marqués and Galvis educational software development methodologies, so it includes aspects of pedagogy and psychology. Their development process is interactive and incremental, the activities are structured and customer actively participates, is considered the methodologies of learning of children with disabilities, their pedagogical strategies; in addition to the control tools that guide and support the development. With the methodology proposed is implemented SOFENDIM (Software education for children with disabilities intellectual moderate), the same that will be a support within the process teaching-learning. MESEDIM places emphasis on the pedagogical requriments allowing to improve the process of teaching-learning of children with disability, to perform the assessment of their cognitive functions was obtained a score of 7.88 against the previous 7.31 (diagnostic test), therefore perceived an acceptable improvement in the educational process. What is recommended is implemented and used the MESEDIM methodology for the development of educational software for children with moderate intellectual disabilities.