Distance Education for the care of high school students with Attention Deficit Disorder

Abstract

In today's digital age, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play an increasingly important role in all aspects of life. However, for teachers and parents or representatives who currently carry out training tasks from home, due to the global pandemic of COVID-19, ICTs play an even more important role than for the rest of society because of it: On the one hand, the considerable number of students that are being worked with (which allows for greater use of ICT), and on the other hand, the special characteristics of some secondary school students who are being served and who have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), since in many cases ICT can help these students access objectives and content through visual, auditory and even tactile channels in a simpler way than through traditional printed material. The researcher assumes a qualitative ethnographic methodological approach, where case studies and direct observation are highlighted, also using the search for information and documentation, the researcher's personal experience as a teacher, the contrast of information from interviews with students, teachers and parents or representatives, and the results of reviewing different discussion forums on the web of teachers working in secondary education in Venezuela, to assess the teaching practice immersed in the use of ICTs.