Technological innovation and education: a brief review of the literature

Abstract

Introduction: Education and technological progress is currently considered a learning resource within the educational field, the use of new technologies facilitates and strengthens the teaching and learning processes since it offers various virtual tools that allow strengthening knowledge, sharing ideas, form critical thinking, among others. Objective: Identify the important aspects of the use of new technologies in education and what is the effect it has on students. Methodology: A bibliographic review of different databases was carried out on articles based on the last 5 years, which were from reliable bibliographic sources such as Scielo, Elsevier, Pubmed, Google Scholar and Redalyc, which contain information about new technologies and the education. Results: The use of new technologies in educational systems help to obtain a greater development of the individual based on scientific knowledge, achieving the training of people with better skills and development capabilities thanks to the use of virtual tools. Conclusion: Technological innovation and its implementation in education improve the quality of teaching and self-learning since it provides various mechanisms of use such as virtual platforms, web pages with high academic impact, among others.