Are future social educators digital residents?

Digital competence is an important ability in professional development in social education. This research seeks to gather information on students’ self-assessment of digital competence in the bachelor’s degree in social education at the School of Education of the University of Salamanca (Spain). The...

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Hauptverfasser: Cabezas González, Marcos, Casillas Martín, Sonia
Format: Online
Sprache:spa
Veröffentlicht: REDIE es una publicación del Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Educativo (IIDE). 2017
Online Zugang:https://redie.uabc.mx/index.php/redie/article/view/1369
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Zusammenfassung:Digital competence is an important ability in professional development in social education. This research seeks to gather information on students’ self-assessment of digital competence in the bachelor’s degree in social education at the School of Education of the University of Salamanca (Spain). The methodology followed was quantitative, non-experimental and descriptive, and electronic surveys were used to collect data. One noteworthy result is the fact that students assess their own attitude toward Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in a very positive light, their ICT use more moderately, and their knowledge of ICT as poor. The study shows that students do not have a level of digital competence commensurate with their status as “digital residents” (generations born after the 1980s), or adequate capabilities to use ICT in their academic and future professional lives.