DigiCraft: A Pedagogical Innovative Proposal for the Development of the Digital Competence in Vulnerable Children

Sonia Casillas-Martín, Marcos Cabezas-González and Ana García-Valcárcel Muñoz-Repiso
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Sonia Casillas-Martín: Department of Didactics, Organization and Research Methods, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
Marcos Cabezas-González: Department of Didactics, Organization and Research Methods, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
Ana García-Valcárcel Muñoz-Repiso: Department of Didactics, Organization and Research Methods, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 23, 1-15

Abstract: The integration of citizens in the society of information and knowledge is a pillar in social cohesiveness. The digital gap, a direct consequence of socioeconomic inequality among citizens enables e-exclusion, which is a new way of social exclusion that excludes people from different economic, social and economic backgrounds out of the society of information and knowledge. The aim of this paper is to present an educational programme lead by the Foundation Vodafone Spain with the assessment of educators and experts at university. The objective is focused on the development of the digital competence centred on vulnerable childhood. This program uses a method based on learning-by-doing and the “maker” movement. The majority of educators who have participated have underlined that children have improved their digital competence and also some transversal competencies and have defined it as an innovative and creative programme. DigiCraft contributes to the acquisition and development of digital competence from a social perspective. The proposal avoids discrimination of children depending on their sociable heterogeneous factors in their education.

Keywords: ICT; digital competence; pedagogical innovation; vulnerable childhood (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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