GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES (GIT) AND DIDACTICS OF GEOGRAPHY: CONTEXT OF IMPLATATION IN HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION, TRUJILLO STATE (VENEZUELA)

Abstract

Cartographic democratization, the automation of environmental studies and the incipient entry of Venezuela into the space race, demand that geography as a school discipline be filled with didactic methods aimed at motivating students in these aspects. The reason for this research was to identify the context of implementation of GIT in the didactics of geography in high school education in Trujillo State, Venezuela. The research is presented as a descriptive model with a mixed paradigm of dominant focus, the research design is mixed, transectional. As a result, three aspects demand consideration: the traditional didactic process, disruptive behaviors, and the lack of educational updating in GIT tools. Taken as a whole, these findings provide a positive feedback, teachers use traditional classes as a control mechanism, while these classes promote uninspiring attitudes among students, which, in addition to other situations, discourage the teacher from continued training.