Teaching integrated solid waste management through artificial intelligence.

Abstract

The educational proposal was implemented in the classroom to promote the comprehensive management of solid waste in high school students, specifically in cycle III of the Bolivarian Educational Center of the city of Pasto. The general objective of this proposal was to analyze the learning achieved in the comprehensive management of solid waste from the development of an innovative educational strategy, mediated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). To achieve this general objective, the following specific objectives were established: to identify the teaching strategies used for the comprehensive management of solid waste, to describe the comprehensive management of solid waste developed by the students and to propose an educational strategy for the development of competencies in the comprehensive management of solid waste, mediated by artificial intelligence. In addition, this strategy allowed students to develop knowledge about the comprehensive management of solid waste, to reduce the volume of waste generated by the work unit and to highlight the lack of basic competency standards in the topic of comprehensive management of solid waste. The proposal is based on a Critical Social Paradigm that promotes reflection and critical thinking. It is framed in a mixed research with a quasi-experimental method, which analyzes the acquired learning in a quantitative way through entrance and exit tests, and in a qualitative way with the application of an observation guide and documentary review.

During the development of the proposal, entrance and exit tests were used to evaluate previous and final knowledge, an observation guide and a documentary review guide to establish the gaps in the institution's documentation regarding the integral management of solid waste and for the construction of a booklet. Regarding results, it can be inferred that the research contributed to learning about the integral management of solid waste, leading to the creation of ECOESTÁNDARES, a didactic unit and a virtual learning environment supported by artificial intelligence. The comparative analysis between the entrance and exit tests showed an enrichment and appropriation of knowledge and behaviors on the integral management of solid waste.