Resumen

This research work was conducted in eighth graders at Cristobal Colon School in Rionegro, in  the municipality of Iquira in the department of Huila. The purpose of this research was to take  eighth graders closer into the development and strengthen of technology and computing skills  through the implementation of a didactic strategy as ‘Calameo’, an interactive and meaningful  way to teach and learn topics related to biological inheritance. Some workshops were carried out  in the technology and computing class in order to springboard learners into the first step to learn  how to plan, design and organise their topics related to biological inheritance in the interactive  web, Calameo. This study was conducted as an Action Research. The instruments administered  in this research study were surveys, interviews, workshops and progress tests. The target group  was 20 pupils with ages ranged between 12 and 13. Workshops were designed in order to apply  the topics learned and taught about biological inheritance to come up with pupil’s group work  presentations in Calameo. Students applied technology and computing skills and performance  pointers. During implementation of workshops for technology and computing through biological  inheritance topics, the teacher researcher reflected on pupils’ process of working on the computer  through the didactic strategy. This research process gave an account on the effectiveness in using  technology and computing skills through the use of biological inheritance topics in the  interactive web, Calameo. The students found that that working on the interactive web was an  effective didactic strategy; however, the teacher’s monitoring and guidance were strategies that  helped student make progress in technology and computing skills development and  empowerment, which was useful to verify their progress. This research study allowed me to  conclude that using meaningful learning and project work are processes that must be tackled to stimulate and start to be developed in learners since very early stages of learning, thus students  can build comprehensibility and meaning through blended learning.