DIGITAL COMPETENCE

DIGITAL COMPETENCE IN
EDUCATION:

DEFINITION: Digital competence (DC) refers to the

competence that involves the creative, critical and safe use
of new information and communication technologies, and aims
to achieve the objectives of work, employability, learning,
leisure time use, inclusion and participation in society.

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 DIGITAL COMPETENCE IN
EDUCATION:
It is necessary to know the specific language governing ICT (texts, numbers, icons, visual, sound and graphic environments)

How this language is encoded and transmitted.

It is necessary to know the main computer applications

To know how to consult and use information sources, as well as how to process all the information obtained.

It is also important to highlight the need to know the rights and freedoms that people have in the digital world.

TO ACHIEVE AND DEVELOP THIS COMPETENCE CORRECTLY

 • The education system shall ensure the full integration of
DIGITAL students in the digital society and the learning of a
responsible consumption and a critical and safe use of
COMPETENCE IN digital media, respectful of human dignity, social justice and
environmental sustainability, constitutional values,
EDUCATION: fundamental rights and, in particular, respect and guarantee
of personal and family privacy and personal data protection.
 • Incorporates a new area of action in the Educational
Project of the educational centres: a digital strategy, which
DIGITAL promotes the use of information and communication
technologies (ICT) in the classroom as an appropriate and
COMPETENCE IN valuable didactic means to carry out teaching and learning
tasks.
EDUCATION:
• A new form of literacy that involves the creative, critical
and confident use of information and communication
technologies to achieve goals related to work, employability,
learning, use of leisure time, inclusion and participation in
society.
 DIGITAL COMPETENCE IN
EDUCATION:
• LOMLOE
• Ley Orgánica 3/2020 del 29 Diciembre, which modifies Ley Orgánica 2/2006 del 3 Mayo
on Education (LOMLOE) stresses, in its preamble,

• The importance of digital competence to reinforce the

equity and inclusiveness of the system, whose main
backbone is comprehensive education.

• It is not only a matter of developing this competence

through specific content, but also in a transversal way in all
areas.

“En consecuencia, se hace necesario que el sistema educativo dé respuesta a esta realidad social e incluya
un enfoque de la competencia digital más moderno y amplio, acorde con las recomendaciones europeas
relativas a las competencias clave para el aprendizaje permanente.”

“El desarrollo de la competencia digital no supone solamente el dominio de los diferentes dispositivos y aplicaciones. El mundo digital es un nuevo hábitat en el
que la infancia y la juventud viven cada vez más: en él aprenden, se relacionan, consumen, disfrutan de su tiempo libre. Con el objetivo de que el sistema
educativo adopte el lugar que le corresponde en el cambio digital, se incluye la atención al desarrollo de la competencia digital de los y las estudiantes de todas
las etapas educativas, tanto a través de contenidos específicos como en una perspectiva transversal, y haciendo hincapié en la brecha digital de género.”
 DIGITAL COMPETENCE IN EDUCATION:
Contribución del área al desarrollo de las competencias clave.
• Competencia digital
“El acercamiento a textos multimodales y la utilización de herramientas, recursos o apoyos digitales y
soportes como plataformas virtuales, contribuirán al desarrollo de la competencia digital,
concretamente al tratamiento digital de la información en las búsquedas en internet, a la creación,
integración o reelaboración de contenidos digitales o a la participación en actividades o proyectos
escolares con herramientas o plataformas virtuales para la construcción de nuevo conocimiento.”

• DECRETO 38/2022, de 29 de septiembre, por el que se establece la ordenación y el currículo de la

educación primaria en la Comunidad de Castilla y León
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DIGITAL COMPETENCE IN LOMLOE

• European Digital Competence Framework (DigComp): LOMLOE incorporates digital competence

as a key component in its educational objectives, ensuring a common framework for describing
digital skills in the context of education.
• LOMLOE (Ley Orgánica de Ordenación de la Enseñanza, or the Organic Law of Education
Ordering in Spain) recognizes In LOMLOE, digital competence as a transversal competence.
• Digital competence is included in the curricular area of Education for Digital Citizenship, which
aims to promote the development of safe, critical, and responsible use of digital
technologies.
• This area includes the development of skills such as information and communication technologies
(ICT) use, digital content creation, digital security, and digital rights and responsibilities.
• LOMLOE emphasizes the importance of integrating digital competence into all subjects and
not treating it as a standalone subject.
• Teachers are encouraged to use digital technologies in their teaching to support the
learning of other subjects, such as using online simulations in science classes or digital tools
for collaborative writing in language arts classes.