Alvaro Salinas

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile | UC · Facultad de Educación

This article explores how educators dealt with an unprecedented educational crisis using remote teaching and delve into the characteristics of teacher agency in crisis situations. Employing a multiple case study design, the study explores diverse school experiences in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago, Chile. Data were gathered from three schools...

Este libro ofrece dos novedades al estudio de las habilidades digitales. En primer lugar, los autores llaman a detenerse para adoptar una perspectiva crítica frente a los supuestos que están a la base del discurso en torno a las habilidades digitales y en segundo lugar, lo hacen en un ámbito poco explorado como es el de los Centros de Formación Téc...

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Despite vast amounts of existing research regarding digital ability development, there is a dearth of studies that systematize and evaluate the instructional techniques and tools reported as being used to develop them. The aim of this study is to contribute to the state of knowledge regarding the instructional techniques and tools reported as being...

It is argued that today is an information driven society. Being able to engage digital information abilities to solve an information interaction activity within digital environments is key for social participation, equality and for bridging socio-economic and cultural gaps. Developing these abilities within school classrooms has become a priority....

Este artículo describe la frecuencia con la cual estudiantes de pedagogía realizan prácticas reflexivas, y analiza factores que pueden explicar esta frecuencia. Para ello se empleó una perspectiva cuantitativa que incluyó una encuesta a una muestra de 650 estudiantes de 134 programas de formación de profesores en Chile. Los resultados muestran que...

This article describes how frequently the pedagogy students carry out reflective practices. It also analyze the factors that can explain the frequency. To do so, a quantitative perspec- tive was used including a survey applied to sample of 650 students from 134 teacher training programs in Chile. The results indicate that the most important factors...

Abtract This article seeks to determine how reflexive students of pedagogy are upon completing their undergraduate training, and what opportunities are offered by the documents they must prepare during their final professional practice, to develop this teaching reflection. Two rubrics were applied to 50 documents prepared by students in six teacher...

Este artículo busca responder a las preguntas por cuán reflexivos son los estudiantes de pedagogía al finalizar su formación de pregrado y qué oportunidades ofrecen los documentos que ellos deben elaborar duran-te su práctica profesional final, para desarrollar esta reflexión docente. Se aplicaron dos rúbricas a 50 documentos elaborados por estudia...

En este texto se presenta una mirada a la educación y al sistema escolar desde la diversidad y la singularidad de las experiencias de los jóvenes, a partir de algunas conclusiones extraídas de una investigación llevada a cabo por el CIDE en los años 94 y 95, sobre "Las Prácticas Culturales de los Jóvenes Secundarios". La metodología de investigació...

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 communication tasks in a digital environment. The test was applied to a sample of 828 in-service teachers in...

This study describes the level of adoption of information and communication technologies in teaching in three Latin American countries. It also analyzes factors that affect the process by which teachers incorporate these technologies into their classrooms. In order to do so, an online survey was conducted with 89 teachers. The results show that mos...

Reflective practice has become a topic of increasing interest in teacher training and research circles worldwide. However, there is little consensus as to how it should be defined and measured. This paper aims to validate a quantitative instrument in Spanish to measure reflective practice in student teachers. To do so, a scale created by Larrivee t...

Reflective practice has become a topic of increasing interest in teacher training and research circles worldwide. However, there is little consensus as to how it should be defined and measured. This paper aims to validate a quantitative instrument in Spanish to measure reflective practice in student teachers. To do so, a scale created by Larrivee t...

This article deals with the willingness that student teachers have towards innovation regarding certain aspects of their future work, and which elements of teacher training programs influence such willingness to innovate. The data shows that student teachers perceive themselves to be innovators, particularly regarding the implementation of new ways...

This paper seeks to contribute to the discussion on the current generation of students and their relationship to technology, providing qualitative, empirical information obtained in the Chilean context. The study analyses and discusses the ideas regarding the emergence of a new generation of learners, or digital natives, as characterised by wide-ra...

This article presents a linear-analytical case study on the development of ICT within the educational systems of Chile and South Korea. Through a comprehensive meta-data analysis and bibliographic review, we collected information on both educational systems and their ICT adoption policies. Key differences necessary to understand how both countries...

En este artículo se presentan los resultados de un estudio sobre las condiciones bajo las cuales la participación en redes profesionales digitales contribuye a la innovación de las prácticas docentes en la sala de clases. A partir de los hallazgos se formulan recomendaciones y orientaciones para el diseño de políticas de formación continua y perfec...

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 145 rural schools. Results show that teachers function as gatekeepers. They do not teach students how t...

This paper presents the results obtained from the implementation of a series of learning activities based on mobile serious games (MSG) for the development of problem-solving and collaborative skills in Chilean 8th grade students. Three MSGs were developed and played by teams of four students, who had to solve the problems posed by the game collabo...

This paper analyzes the teachers' contribution to overcome the digital divide in Chilean rural schools. Using a multidimensional definition of digital divide, the paper discusses the role of the teachers in ICT learning that students achieve in their schools. In particular, it discusses how knowledge, expectations, access and use of ICTs on the par...

Este trabajo presenta las características y los resultados del uso de un video juego colaborativo para la resolución de problemas en el currículum de ciencias a nivel escolar. Se desarrollaron dos software para handhelds enmarcados en una metodología especialmente diseñada para el trabajo con alumnos y profesores. La usabilidad de los videojuegos f...

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 on learning. This paper presents an evaluation of the Enlaces network, a national Information and Co...

This study presents the impact of the application of a specially tailored classroom methodology based on a problem-solving mobile game for 8th grade science class curriculum. The methodology included science classroom activities with teachers as facilitators and learning activities using interactive mobile videogames. The evaluation study focused o...

This study describes and analyzes the design, development, application and evaluation of a new pedagogical methodology based on interactive games for mobile devices (PDAs). The methodology is oriented to developing problem-solving skills in science classes for 8 th graders, by including pre-classroom activities with the teacher, classroom activitie...

In this paper, we describe the formatting guidelines for 13 th Taller Internacional de Software Educativo, TISE 2008. Authors are fully responsible for the quality of their articles and are kindly requested to review the following instructions for their elaboration of papers. Formatting guidelines are specified this way for the first time. RESUMEN...

This work presents the features and results of a problem-solving collaborative game for 8th graders science classes’ curriculum. Software for pocketPC was developed for this game, based on a complete framework methodology with students and teachers. From our point of view, the key to integrate mobile devices into school is the methodological framew...

The use of Personal Digital assistants (PDAs) in education is a theme that has received increasingly attention in the literature. A series of applications have emerged from exploring concepts of mobile learning on the basis of "designed uses" by PDA designers. A few studies stem from the knowledge and analysis of actual practices of PDA end users....

RESUMEN En este artículo se presentan algunos de los resultados más relevantes de la evaluación del multimedia project en Chile (MMP). En primer lugar se presentan algunas de las características del MMP y se le describe como dispositivo pedagógico, esto es, como un modo específico de articulación de herramientas, objetivos, prácticas y evaluación....