TY - GEN
T1 - Digital literacy development of students involved in an ICT educational project
AU - Quintana, Maria Graciela Badilla
AU - Pujol, Meritxell Cortada
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The impact of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has become the core of a change that involves most of the society fields, consequently the technological and informational literacy are essential requirements in education. The research is a quasi-experimental and ex-post-facto study in schools from Spain. The aim was to describe and analyze the involvement showed by 219 students who participated in a development of ICT's Project named Ponte dos Brozos. The research objective was to respond if the students who usually worked with ICT, had better knowledge and management with computing tools, and if they are better prepared in researching and selecting information. Results showed that students who have a higher contact with ICTs know about the technology and how to use it, also better knowledge and control of the computer and operative systems, a high information management level trough the Internet, although their literacy in information is devoid.
AB - The impact of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has become the core of a change that involves most of the society fields, consequently the technological and informational literacy are essential requirements in education. The research is a quasi-experimental and ex-post-facto study in schools from Spain. The aim was to describe and analyze the involvement showed by 219 students who participated in a development of ICT's Project named Ponte dos Brozos. The research objective was to respond if the students who usually worked with ICT, had better knowledge and management with computing tools, and if they are better prepared in researching and selecting information. Results showed that students who have a higher contact with ICTs know about the technology and how to use it, also better knowledge and control of the computer and operative systems, a high information management level trough the Internet, although their literacy in information is devoid.
KW - Digital literacy
KW - Education
KW - ICT
KW - ICT skills
KW - Internet search
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77957932176&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-13166-0_88
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-13166-0_88
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77957932176
SN - 3642131654
SN - 9783642131653
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 632
EP - 638
BT - Technology Enhanced Learning
T2 - 1st International Conference on Reforming Education, Quality of Teaching and Technology-Enhanced Learning: Learning Technologies, Quality of Education, Educational Systems, Evaluation, Pedagogies, TECH-EDUCATION 2010
Y2 - 19 May 2010 through 21 May 2010
ER -