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3. Communication skills: Communication from ICT 2016. Innovating in a digital economy, which
can be given in different ways, since the codes and responds to the need to assess the technological
channels to be used can be audiovisual, multimedia, competitiveness of countries, Mexico was ranked at
etc. will depend on the ingenuity and creativity of position 76 and the assigned assessment it was 4.0.
each teacher.
Villasana (2014) points out that in Mexico the reform
The above presents a challenge for teachers who have promoted by former President Ernesto Zedillo (1994-
to integrate into the world of ICT, but it is not 2000) was more prominent for the decentralization of
impossible to achieve, if you start by being an active education than for its achievements in having
participant in which gradually have access to ICT and expanded educational coverage. Technology in
pose practices that contribute to the knowledge they Mexican education was practically non-existent. The
have but now implementing novel scenarios. world was just beginning to discover its benefits,
power and scope in the field. In the same way, and
In its action plan, UNESCO (1998) points out that in following the ideas of the same author, Vicente Fox's
order to modernize higher education in all its aspects: 2000-2006 term was characterized only in the attempt
content, methodology, management and of his program "educational revolution", although it
administration, the rational use of ICT as an object of must be recognized at least he sought to incorporate
study, research and development is required. technology as a tool to enrich the teaching process.
According to the OECD's first PISA assessment of This was called the Enciclomedia program. And with
digital skills, schools have not yet tapped the potential the term of Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) his legacy
of technology in the classroom to address the digital focuses on the pact he made with the former
divide, and prepare all students with the skills they magisterial leader Elba Esther Gordillo to win the
need in the connected world of today (OECD, 2015). presidency. The technology, whether it was teaching
Santiago, Caballero, Gomez and Dominguez (2013) in basic education or its application, practically
argue that information and communication happened at night and put the last nail to the coffin of
technologies (ICTs) have a growing role in Mexico Enciclomedia.
and in the rest of the world, in order to orient
education in any of its levels. The ICT Development Conclusion
Index (IDI) measures the performance of countries in
ICT infrastructure, use and skills. The measurement People born around the new millennium have access
scale has a theoretical range of zero to ten. The IDI of to information in a disproportionate way and with this
the LA countries is 2.77 to 6.95, reflecting the they have handled the technology from a very early
different conditions in which technology lies in these stage of their life, reason why they are immersed in a
nations, even with similar income levels. Internet dynamic in which their world is based on the ICT.
access in schools in the Dominican Republic, for
example, was only 5% in 2012, in contrast to 100% of The information they have access influences in a
several Caribbean islands. In Argentina, Brazil, Costa transcendental way in the life of the young people,
Rica and Mexico less than 50% of schools are reason why the educational institutions must be in the
connected to the Internet, while Chile has 78% and vanguard and for that reason the academic practices
Uruguay 96% (International Telecommunication have to be based in the current lifestyle, economic and
Union, 2014). technological context from of expanding the teaching
role in the transformation of the teaching-learning
Based on the National Survey on the Availability and processes.
Use of Information Technologies in Households
(ENDUTIH), which was first raised in 2015 to give It is time to be an active part to achieve a more open
continuity to the previous module, 62.4 million and flexible learning centered on technological
people, six years of age or more in the country, users innovation, academic training is without a doubt the
of the services offered by the Internet, which way forward.
represents 57.4 percent of this population (INEGI,
2016). Islas (2016) argues that in the recent edition of
the report The Global Information Technology Report

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