El potencial pedagógico de la tecnología: Desarrollar competencias y favorecer la autonomía y la responsabilidad en el alumnado
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 The improvements carried out in the last decades in the field of Information and the Communication Technologies are significantly perceived in the educational institutions. Besides the well-known advantages from an instrumental, administrative or managerial point of view, we assist to unprecedented extension of new possibilities of social interaction as well as to the creation of new learning contexts. Thus, this work is aimed at analysing the benefits that technology can provide in the students’ learning process, making special emphasis not only on the potential of these resources to favour students’ autonomy and responsibility in the teaching-learning process, but also on their possibilities for the development of intercultural competences. Among the conclusions, we mainly stand out two issues: on the one hand, the urgency to improve teachers’ preparation, to make the most of the pedagogical potential of the digital resources and, on the other hand, the need to deepen in the knowledge of the effects that, on a long-term basis, may involve the use of digital technologies in our students’ way of behaving and of mixing with each  other.
Promoting interculturality in Spain: assessing the use of the Jigsaw classroom method
This note examines the effectiveness of a program in Spain that uses the Jigsaw learning technique as an educational intervention. We used a quasi‐experimental research design with two groups, two measures and an independent variable (the program). Use of the Jigsaw technique is shown to have been fairly effective on a series of measures.
Las competencias profesionales y la formación universitaria: posibilidades y riesgos
Las competencias profesionales tienen multiples facetas, epistemologica, sociologica, politica y practica; por ello reclaman una perspectiva multidimensional e integral de los aprendizajes. La comprension, el juicio y la movilizacion de diversos recursos cognitivos, personales, sociales y eticos constituyen la estructura interna de una competencia, asi como la capacidad de aprender a aprender, que es esencial para captar su caracter cambiante y evolutivo. Una determinada concepcion de las competencias puede tener implicaciones para el diseno de las titulaciones. En el articulo se aboga por el modelo de proceso, pues permite integrar mejor que el modelo de objetivos los contenidos, las capacidades, las metodologias y la evaluacion de los aprendizajes. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The professional skills are related to epistemological, sociological, political and practical issues that should be worked from a multidimensional and integral learning perspective. Understanding, interpreting and contextual applying of different cognitive, personal, social and ethical resources represent the internal structure of the competence, so as the learning to learn abilities for the competences change and improvement could be developed over time. The competencies theoretical framework adopted could have practical implications for the career design at the university. This article claims for a process design model as it offers a more balanced and integrated approach than the objective model for dealing the contents, the competencies, the teaching and learning strategies and the evaluation in a interactive way.