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techniques, procedures, skills and abilities, attitudes pose, according to the level of professionalism and
and values. Castañeda, Acosta and Morea (2013) social responsibility characteristic of the different
argue that technological competences are part of the professional areas (UNESCO, 2004).
set of personality traits, attitudes, knowledge and
skills that make possible the professional performance One of the first authors to approach the concept of
in the teaching area; they are a conglomeration of digital literacy was Gilster (1997). Bawden (2008)
associated elements such as knowledge (KNOW), presents a series of skills and attitudes that comprise
attitudes (TO BE), and skills (DO). it. Covello (2010) identifies as part of this digital
literacy, from the definition and identification of the
As a teacher you have to be aware that you work with need for information, to the management and
a diversity of students, you cannot treat everyone interpretation, evaluation, creation or communication
equally, which makes the work more complex, but of information and knowledge through ICT tools .
also more enriching. Hobbs (1996) defines it as the access process, critical
analysis and creation of messages through multimedia
The teaching competences to be developed are: tools, and whose objective is to promote autonomy
through the development of analysis, reasoning and
1. "Plan the teaching-learning process communication. Lankshear and Knobel (2005) define
digital competence as a set of specific competencies
2. Select and submit disciplinary content
or skills that name truthcentric. Gutierrez (2011)
3. Offering understandable information and points out that digital competences are the set of
explanations values, beliefs, knowledge, abilities and attitudes to

4. Didactically manage the NNTT use properly the technologies, including the
computers as well as the different programs and
5. Manage methodologies of didactic work and Internet, that allow and enable the search, access,
learning tasks organization and use of information in order to build
6. Connect constructively with students knowledge. OECD (2003) argues that digital
competencies are understood as a sophisticated
7. Advise students and, where appropriate, repertoire of competencies that permeate workplace,
colleagues community and social life, including skills needed to
8. Evaluate the learning (and the processes to acquire manage information and the ability to assess
them) relevance and the reliability of what you are looking
for on the Internet. The European Parliament (2006)
9. Reflect and investigate teaching
notes that in particular on digital competition it claims
10. To contribute in institutional matters (Fernández, that it refers to a safe and critical use of technologies
2012) and the mastery of information and communication

technologies.
However, the implementation of ICT in educational
practices facilitates the dynamics in the processes to It is from the above that then they would have to
reach the aforementioned competences, because it is develop:
possible to use tools such as online learning
communities, which are a space where activities are 1. Instrumental and technical competences: these are
shared, knowledge, proposals for solving problems, the result of daily practice in the use of ICT, which
etc., that is, represent a viable alternative of learning allows familiarity with them and therefore do not have
and collaborative work. to represent any problem.

It is also possible that it can be given, it may also be 2. Didactic competences: Communication,
the case that for some teachers to face continuous participation and interaction are promoted based on
changes as a result of interaction with ICT can affect the evaluation of teaching-learning processes with
their professional competence, understood as: the ICT.
comprehensive set of skills that people put into play
in real work situations to solve the problems they

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