(1424) PROMOTING DIGITAL COMPETENCE FROM UNIVERSITY

摘要

Digital Competence involves the confident and critical use of Information Society Technology (IST) forwork, leisure and communication. It is underpinned by basic skills in ICT: the use of computers toretrieve, assess, store, produce, present and exchange information, and to communicate andparticipate in collaborative networks via the Internet. Some arguments cited for promoting the inclusionof ICT in education are the potential benefits of ICT for teaching and learning, the pervasiveness oftechnologies, and the necessity for present people of being functional in our knowledge society.Education standards need to include the kind of skills and competences that can help studentsbecome responsible and performing users of technology and to develop the new competencesrequired in today's economy and society which are enhanced by technology, in particular those relatedto knowledge management. So, in some countries, particularly in Spain, there is necessary a generalchange in the curriculum, not related to any specific subject.In this sense, among different options, an international contest with the same theoretical concepts forall countries as an evaluation methodology can be a good practice for improvement educationalsystems and the level of the Digital Competence, like a positive double-edged sword. First, because itcan be used to assess some skills and competences of students of different countries with differenteducation systems;;and second, it may be a very valuable tool for developing Digital Competence notonly in those countries participating in the contest, but also others. So, it can be the seed for a changein the curriculum.We present in this paper some actions related to the promotion of the Digital Competence in the preuniversityeducation system.