Psychopedagogical Strategies to Reduce Inappropriate Use of the Internet in Educational Institutions of Secondary and Middle Basic Education

Abstract

The use of the Internet has gradually become the most influential means of communication in the development of different behavioral patterns, where young people have grown together with the evolution of technology. The Internet is a benefit for humanity, it helps people communicate with everyone, although many young people also misuse it within the educational field. Young people from rural Educational Institutions are not the exception and it was necessary to carry out a research process with the purpose of developing psycho-pedagogical strategies that help reduce the inappropriate use of the Internet in students at the secondary and middle educational level, from the Institutions. Rural Educational. For this research process, a methodology with a mixed, descriptive, transversal, non-experimental approach was used. With students from sixth to eleventh grades of a rural educational institution. A non-probabilistic convenience sampling was taken into account, applying the Test instrument referring to Internet Addiction (TAI) and a bibliographic analysis of intervention strategies was carried out through a matrix. In the research process, it was evident that percentages of internet addiction were occurring in the students of the intervened population, in the mild, moderate and severe ranges; which, psychoeducational strategies are necessary to help reduce this problem.