Digital Inclusion in Chile: Internet in Rural Schools

Alvaro Salinas; Jaime Sanchez

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 161–170

The digital divide has been a subject of permanent concern for search and policy. The central concern is related to how distinct sectors of society can be included by having access to the opportunities offered by ICT and the Internet. Research has...

Topics: Schools, Inclusive Education, Internet

ICT & learning in Chilean schools: Lessons learned

Jaime Sánchez; Alvaro Salinas

Computers & Education Vol. 51, No. 4 (December 2008) pp. 1621–1633

By the early nineties a Chilean network on computers and education for public schools had emerged. There were both high expectancies that technology could revolutionize education as well as divergent voices that doubted the real impact of technology ...

Language: English

Digital inclusion in Chile: Internet in rural schools

Alvaro Salinas; Jaime Sánchez

International Journal of Educational Development Vol. 29, No. 6 (November 2009) pp. 573–582

This paper analyzes the teacher's contribution to improving digital inclusion in Chilean rural schools, using a multidimensional definition of the digital divide. Data was obtained from interviews and surveys applied to teachers and students from...

Language: English

Best pedagogical practices with ICT in Chilean classrooms

Jaime Sanchez; Alvaro Salinas; Orietta Purcell; Lorena Perez

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 2031–2040

We present a study that systematizes pedagogical criteria and provides evidence of best pedagogical practices using ICT based on an analysis of the available information on in-class, pedagogical uses of ICT on a national and international level....

Teaching in a Digital Environment (TIDE): Defining and measuring teachers' capacity to develop students' digital information and communication skills

Magdalena Claro; Alvaro Salinas; Tania Cabello-Hutt; Ernesto San Martín; David D. Preiss; Susana Valenzuela; Ignacio Jara

Computers & Education Vol. 121, No. 1 (June 2018) pp. 162–174

The study presented in this paper consisted in defining a Teaching in a Digital Environment (TIDE) capacity construct and developing a performance-based test to measure Chilean teachers' ability to teach students how to solve information and...

Language: English