Techology education in sustainable development: a perspective from middle school students

This article is the result of the first stage of a project named Digital Learning Project registered in the Postgraduate and Research Office in the Universidad Autónoma del Carmen. This project has a specific objective of promoting environmental education through technology, and it presents the diagnostic obtained by the application of surveys, to know what knowledge do middle school students have about the sustainable development. Focusing in the possible ways of improvement those zones where a high level of contamination exists. The population were students from two technical industrials middle schools with a public characteristic in different areas, the most relevant results are that 48% of the students surveyed mention that urbanization as the main reason of the problems of biodiversity and sustainable development in Carmen City, Campeche, Mexico.