When we speak of acts 
ity and the progress that it implies is inevitable aside the many innovations in technology, specifically computer. The computer, which has developed greatly over recent years, has imposed a way into our lives that has produced new ways of working and therefore also new possibilities for development of knowledge and personality, we speak here of education itself.
computing has given us, and surely I will continue doing, "a multitude of benefits and resources not only useful but necessary to install our students used to this world" computerized "in an education that is very traditional but meets their youth and the society of his time. In this way information technology is integrated educational level, and is no longer seen as external, using it merely as objects of study but as a mere instrument or teaching resource. We speak here of those computer programs that have features and functions that support the teaching-learning process and in fact are necessary in the training of individuals responsible for the XXI Century, we call these programs: Educational Software.
We know clearly in its many forms that travel throughout the curricula and high school students ranging from libraries, typewriters, calculators, books, and even others who require more complex processes such as experiments, laboratories, warehouses, simulation of natural phenomena, etc., contain pictures, videos, music, numbers, letters.
Essential Educational Software Features *
"They intended to facilitate the educational process.
-orient the teaching-learning process, are interactive and their use not only involves the collective support among students, but a computer-pupil relationship important.
"They're easy for both teachers and students.
"They have specific learning objectives and information by topic to work.
"It's a motivational tool since its implementation in education is to motivate students not only on new topics to work in class, but also to learn more about computer science.
possess -assessment systems where students can learn to self-assessment (metacognition) to think about their mistakes and not to commit.
- these programs are adapted to the individuality of learners and different contexts in which they were implemented.
Features that meet the educational software in the teaching-learning process *
Among all the functions you use educational software on the one hand are complying with an innovative feature as the use of technology can be considered as an important update of education also serves as an evaluation function since it tracks the learning processes that are taking in students, as well speak of a function instructive and informative as the knowledge that circulates in the programs promote certain attitudes in students and targets, and motivating role implies that students are attracted to the themes given to the implementation of computers.
Critical view
The use of educational software in secondary school is very successful because it is an educational resource more motivating than a teacher can use. This motivation can occur in several ways, not only as an interactive resource, fun and "different" from what we are accustomed to see in the classroom, but mainly because it is computer science, computing and technology world in which found students. The use of these resources is thus not only a method of carrying out a topic high school students, but is an update of the educational act that many times young people are distant from them. A class that is based not only dictates, diagrams on the blackboard, traditional assessments, books, etc., but in addition to their daily work technology, specifically the educational software, the student is something closer to their lives outside the scope school, their interests. Something that is also very important is that with the use of software and computers in education is also taught, in addition to the particular subject that touches every teacher- to see computers in a different way that the students know today, the computer programs and applications are not just for play, chat or communicate, but they are also very useful to find information, learn, interact with them ... well, education.
This is very important to put the school in keeping with the society of knowledge ... but still must consider the importance of books and teacher's presence can never be replaced, as the warmth of the human encounter is unchangeable even by the most advanced computer of all time, and we must not forget that the brain is the best and only tool, to put it in a way, which is able to create a myriad of thoughts and equations without even the slightest need for the use of technology .
Let's be careful, do not young people of our time to leave their brains in their nightstands calm and confident to take a computer ... and we have given enough calculators to think for themselves or with the much used Google, that sort of "God" which is so easy going and just press a button to get their hands on all the knowledge of world without further investigation.
We must never forget the traditional teaching, the most sacred books, blackboards and even the hours of tired of complaining students to listen to the teachers make their classes .
Even so , must be aware of this world we live in world that can cost some people understand and may never finish to learn, but that after all this world is the reality that shapes and determined young people who are in our classrooms. In this way we carry in our purse or wallet teacher, chalk and eraser as has been done forever, but also keep in mind these new tools to address the classes such as computers, technology in general ... always use them carefully and cautiously, without undue or excessive use of them.
Stefanie Riani
* Data from Pere Marqués "Educational Software"
