Competencia digital y TIC: claves de la ciudadanía digital y requisitos para el futuro profesorado

Abstract

This essay presents the results of a study in postgraduate students about their perception and opinion of digitalcompetence in terms of limitations and opportunities for teachers in the 21st century. The study results show theimportance they attach to the digital competence in different areas (personal, social, family, academic,economic) resulting a discursive profile that indicates they can not imagine their daily lives without the use oftechnologies and without continuous learning and updating to improve their lifelong learning. The qualitativestudy analysed with NVIVO program, evidences the importance teachers and future teachers give thesecompetences and the need felt to dominate them for teacher performance, which leads to the need to raise themnot only in the initial teacher training but in lifelong learning.