Competencia digital y su relación con la innovación docente en las unidades educativas: Sindicato de Choferes San Sebastián y Escuela Panamá

Abstract

Abstract: Digital competence and teaching innovation refers to the ability of teachers to effectively use digital tools in their pedagogical practice in order to improve the quality of education. This research work will emphasize the importance of digital competence and its relationship with innovation in education, covering topics such as: the historical background of digital competencies and teacher innovation; digital transformations in teacher competencies, training and innovation; digital teacher training; digital teacher training in Ecuador; digital competencies of teachers; teacher innovation; teacher innovation; teacher innovation in Ecuador and technological acceptance model (TAM). This research is framed under the interpretivist philosophy, which adopts an inductive approach and a qualitative methodological route based on the phenomenological strategy, for data collection, the interview was used as a technique and procedure. The sample of this study consisted of 3 teachers between 29 and 32 years of age, who work in the following educational units: Sindicato de Choferes, San Sebastián and Panamá school.