Information Technology uses for literacy processes in children with subtle cognitive impairment

Abstract

The teaching and learning of reading and writing processes become cultural-and-surrounding de-mands on every single student. The difficulties in their development (because of external or internal reasons), are the cause of repetition, desertion and failure in the first school grades, which result in high illiteracy rates. E - blocks (Spanish version) is an educational software that has been validated at a government school within the subtle-cognitive-impairment population in order to facilitate their starting literacy process and contribute to lowering such marked indexes of illiteracy. Educational IT, when used with clear pedagogical purposes, beco-mes a motivational tool that facilitates and improves this kind of processes.

La ense�anza y aprendizaje de los procesos de lec-tura y escritura se convierten en una exigencia de la cultura y del entorno en el que cada uno de los estudiantes se desenvuelve. Las dificultades en su desarrollo �ya sea por razones externas o internas�, son causantes de la repitencia, deserci�n y fracaso en los primeros grados escolares, que producen al-tos �ndices de analfabetismo. E-blocks en espa�ol es un software educativo que se ha validado en un colegio distrital en poblaci�n con d�ficit cognitivo leve, a fin de facilitar la alfabetizaci�n inicial de esta poblaci�n. La inform�tica educativa utilizada con prop�sitos pedag�gicos claros se convierte en una herramienta de motivaci�n que facilita y mejora es-tos procesos.