Informatics as a sociocultural alternative of the Third Age

Authors

  • Jorge Manuel Díaz Vidal Filial de Ciencias Médicas de Bayamo. Bayamo. Granma
  • Manuela María Guerra González Joven Club de Computación y Electrónica, del Consejo Popular Camilo Cienfuegos del Municipio Bayamo. Bayamo. Granma
  • Elena María Díaz Rosabal Universidad de Granma. Bayamo. Granma
  • Zaida Tornés Espinosa Filial de Ciencias Médicas de Bayamo. Bayamo. Granma

Keywords:

computer literacy, artificial intelligence, learning, aged

Abstract

The current society is characterized by the application of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Cuba is not far from this technological advance, in the country there is evidenced a project to educate and prepare the citizens in these technologies, in this process of computerization of the society it is included the movement of the Young Club of Informatics and Electronic. In this sense it was performed an educational intervention in the Young Club of Informatics and Electronics of the Popular Council Camilo Cienfuegos in Bayamo, with the aim to facilitate the appropriate sociocultural environment for the motivation of the Third Age people by the learning of Informatics, as a  contribution to get a satisfactory lifestyle of this people, with this purpose it was created a multidisciplinary team integrated by professors from the Medical Science Filial of Bayamo, the University of Granma and from the Young Club of Informatics and Electronic. The proposal integrated a software designed in the Moodle platform and a group of informatics tools. The validation was made  through a pilotage, it was used  the test of difference of proportions with a level of significance of 0.05, to compare the indicators of retention, assistance, punctuality and quantitative and qualitative results between the experimental  and the control groups. Besides the proposal was under the criterion of experts, by means of the Delphi method, they considered it effective to obtain of the objectives proposed.

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Published

2017-09-25

How to Cite

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Díaz Vidal JM, Guerra González MM, Díaz Rosabal EM, Tornés Espinosa Z. Informatics as a sociocultural alternative of the Third Age. RM [Internet]. 2017 Sep. 25 [cited 2025 Jun. 3];16(4). Available from: https://revmultimed.sld.cu/index.php/mtm/article/view/599

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