Teacher education in ICT: Contributions from different training models

Julio Cabero-Almenara, Rubicelia Valencia-Ortíz
2018 RECIE  
Training the teaching staff in Information and Communication Technologies comes implicitly with thestudy of its different dimensions and principles, regarding the indications that have been pointed froma variety of studies and works. In our current society, it is clear that the significance of ICT to improvequality and educational performance is not exclusively determined by its presence, but also by the variety oftransformations that involves not only using them as a way of consuming knowledge
more » ... but also seeing themas tools to enrich, create and generate said knowledge. From this perspective, investment in professionaldevelopment is more important than investment in resources associated with technology. This is animportant aspect for incorporation of ITC, not considering only its use to do better things than we dowithout it, but to do things in a complete different manner. We present this article which describes a tour ofsome of the bases and models, analyzing the problematic of training in digital skills that teachers might facewhen they incorporate them into their teaching and professional practice.
doi:10.32541/recie.2018.v2i2.pp61-76 fatcat:nadzcr7fg5flloyzf7coi745nu