The Generational Digital Gap within Dual Vocational Education and Training Teachers
Jesús Sanchez-Prieto
,
Juan Manuel Trujillo-Torres
,
Melchor Gómez-García
,
Gerardo Gómez-García
In our current society, Digital Competence is an essential and basic competence for teachers. The students need trained teachers who know how to use I.
- Pub. date: October 15, 2020
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In our current society, Digital Competence is an essential and basic competence for teachers. The students need trained teachers who know how to use Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and develop them into pedagogy. However, some of them do not know how. This phenomena is called “The generational digital divide”, which occurs when teachers do not have sufficient digital or technological skills or do not adapt to them. This article aims to determine whether the age of teachers has an influence on their knowledge about Information and Communication Technologies. The objective is to detect if there really exists a digital gap between generations, specifically in Dual Vocational Education Training, a kind of education which has been growing in the recent years. To do so, a study with a quantitative and descriptive method has been carried out, with the participation of 1.568 teachers of this training modality in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia. The data were extracted by means of a questionnaire to measure the level of digital teaching competence in Dual Vocational Education and Training schools. The results showed that the level of digital competence shown was medium to low across all dimensions. With regard to the age factor, only the problem-solving dimension was found to be age-dependent.
Keywords: ICTs skills, digital resources in teaching, generational digital divide, dual training.
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