Digital competence of early childhood education teachers: attitude, knowledge and use of ICT. Issue 2 (14th March 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Casillas Martín, Sonia; Cabezas González, Marcos; García Peñalvo, Francisco José
• Is Part Of: European journal of teacher education. Volume 43:Issue 2(2020)
• Page Start: 210
• Page End: 223
• Publication Date: 2020-03-14
• Subjects: Curriculum -- initial teacher training -- information and communication technologies -- digital competencies -- early childhood education; Teachers -- Training of -- Europe -- Periodicals; 370.71094
• DOI: 10.1080/02619768.2019.1681393
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0261-9768

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The main objective of the research described here was to learn how young learners self-evaluate their digital competence. A non-experimental and descriptive quantitative methodology was employed, an electronic survey being used to collect the data. Among the main results, we can highlight that these learners self-evaluate their attitude towards Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as favourable, their handling of them as moderate and their knowledge of them as scarce. It became clear that they do not have a level of digital competence suitable for being called 'digital natives', nor sufficient ability to use ICT in their academic life or in their professional future.