Competencia digital y su relación con la innovación docente en las unidades educativas de educación básica de las provincias de Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Manabí y Pichincha

Abstract

Abstract: The general objective of this educational research is to analyze the relationship between digital competence and innovation of the elementary school teacher in Ecuador. Then, a qualitative research methodology was used under an interpretivist philosophy with an inductive approach, which helped to obtain information for our transversal and phenomenological study. The research seeks to expose the great challenges that teachers, students and educational community had to face by implementing the use of technological tools that were immersed in the educational system during the Covid-19 pandemic experienced since 2020 in Ecuador. Thus obtaining the following results of the research, the field of education itself was not prepared to face such a challenge, i.e., there was no contingency plan that the educational community could apply in this case, as teachers and students did not have several factors to change the mode of classes from face-to-face to virtual, emphasizing the lack of knowledge about the use of ICT.