Digital competence for the Didactics of Social Sciences in the training of future teachers: an experience with virtual debates

Abstract

One of the current challenges facing education is training in competences and skills for a globalised, technological and changing environment. The intensive use of ICT in the last two years as a work, training and leisure environment has led to the implementation of the use of ICT beyond instrumental learning, and to address competences and skills for being, being and doing in the digital ecosystem. The work presented here is the result of experimentation over two academic years with four groups of future Early Childhood Education teachers during three weeks of classes in the subject of Media Education and the Educational Dimension of ICT. The Kialo programme, in its educational version, has been the digital resource used to work on digital competence in several lines of action, not only in the field of communication, creating a virtual space in which to encourage participation and critical thinking among today's students, future teachers, and to raise awareness of the importance of active citizenship.