Softarea as a contribution to science education´s development

Abstract

The insertion of the Information Technology and Communications inside our educational system is an essential part in the profound transformations our revolution carries out with the objective to contribute to Science Education´s development. As a result of the research “Model to evaluate design and application of the Educative Software in Cuba”, an evaluation has been obtained from the current software installed in our schools where limitations can be found not only in the didactic design of the collections but those related to its use and evaluation. In relation to the activities’ orientation from professors that lead to a developmental learning and encourage the development of the intellectual and basic computing abilities necessary for the student to deal with the present day society. This work is about the possibilities of the educative software’s homework (softarea), throughout a correct orientation, execution and control of the later, as a contribution of the computing abilities’ development that promotes a developmental learning.