CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR DIGITAL IMMIGRANT TEACHERS -DEVELOPING A NEW DIDACTIC LANGUAGE FOR THE INSERTION OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CLASSROOM

Abstract

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT's) are already an integral part of the daily life of contemporary society and the popularization of the Internet has made them necessary to the extent that it causes different forms of communication, relationships and knowledge construction to emerge, in a new and exclusive language. On the other hand, the School has not followed this process and insists on offering a conservative and conteudist didactics. This cultural conflict, according to research, forms the main reason for school dropout. To promote a new didactic language that transforms ICT's into Educational Technologies that can favor the teaching-learning process is that we turn our gaze to the teacher, who are mostly digital immigrants and who need to be initiated both in basic training for the use of ICT's, as well as be nourished with pedagogical and cultural knowledge that are sufficient to reduce the space between their initial training and the reality of digital culture that are imposed in the classroom. This paper proposes a Plan of Continuing Education for Digital Immigrant Teachers, most of the regents, in order to produce a new didactic positioning that favors better learning outcomes and can account for the modern demands of the student, society, the globalized world, as well as the professions, diseases and issues that will still arise through this vertiginous growth of knowledge and ICT's.