scholarly journals Media literacy for older people facing the digital divide: The e-inclusion programmes design

Comunicar ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (42) ◽  
pp. 173-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leopoldo Abad-Alcalá
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Use Of Internet

This article is based on the fact that the Spanish population is aging, and is second only to Japan in its total number of senior citizens. Given this situation and the omnipresence of new technologies in everyday life, the use of Internet and ICT for older people is essential. The latest report by IMSERSO shows that only 15.6% of people aged be tween 65 and 74 connected to the Internet in the 3-month period measured. The data seem to show that there is a generational digital divide to be overcome. The studies that have addressed this issue have focused more on regional and specific aspects of the relationship between age and Internet use intensity, and these studies use age ranges as criteria. Other studies have introduced variables such as seniors’ economic situation or educational level. With this in mind, public policies have sought to reduce this generational digital divide through a number of media literacy and e-learning projects but without success due to their poor methodological approach. This paper proposes a number of new methodological approaches to tackle the design of digital literacy programs for older people based on criteria such as degree of autonomy and the possibilities for enjoying everyday life, proposing the development of programs based on contextualism, incrementalism, motivation and absorption processes. Tras la japonesa, la población española es la segunda población que más envejece. Ante esta situación y la omnipresencia de las nuevas tecnologías, el uso de Internet y las TIC en la vida cotidiana se hace imprescindible para las personas mayores. El último informe del IMSERSO establecía que solo se habían conectado a Internet en los últimos tres meses un 15,6% de las personas entre 65 y 74 años. Estos datos muestran la existencia de una brecha digital de carácter generacional que debe ser superada. Los estudios que han abordado esta problemática se han centrado más en aspectos regionales, y los específicos sobre la relación entre edad e Internet han abordado solo la intensidad de uso vinculada a intervalos de edades. Otros estudios han introducido variables como el nivel económico o educativo. Frente a esta realidad, las políticas públicas han pretendido disminuir esta brecha digital generacional mediante diferentes proyectos de alfabetización mediática y e-learning, sin lograr su objetivo por el deficiente planteamiento metodológico de los cursos. Este artículo propone una serie de nuevas perspectivas metodológicas a la hora de abordar el diseño de programas de alfabetización digital de las personas mayores basadas en criterios tales como el grado de autonomía o falta de la misma para la vida cotidiana así como el desarrollo de programas basados en el contextualismo, incrementalismo, motivación y proceso de absorción.

scholarly journals Análisis bibliográfico sobre la brecha digital y la alfabetización en nuevas tecnologías

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jesús De Benito-Castanedo
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Institutional Level ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
The Subject

This article analyzes the digital divide in Spain from a bibliographic perspective, focusing on the digital literacy as a fundamental, pedagogical element. Educational interventions in new technologies have been the subject of analysis, both at an academic and institutional level. Many ideas and strategies have emerged from this analysis to carry out digital literacy projects. Thus, the present paper reflects the conceptualization and current situation of the digital divide, considering the interventions in digital literacy as an essential element in the process of digital inclusion. The article culminates with simple guidelines to implement this type of educational actions; these guidelines also intend to be a useful tool for the educators’ work in the field of literacy in new technologies.

Aplicaciones móviles para personas mayores: un estudio sobre su estrategia actual / Mobile applications for the elderly: a study of their current strategy

Aula Abierta ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina González Oñate ◽  
Carlos Fanjul Peyró
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
Motivation Strategy ◽  
The Media ◽  
Level Of Knowledge

RESUMENEspaña es una de las sociedades occidentales con un mayor colectivo envejecido. A su vez, es un país en el que existe un alto desarrollo de las tecnologías. Esta es la doble cara de una situación resultante que ha provocado una gran brecha digital entre las personas mayores y el uso de las tecnologías de la información. Este trabajo analiza los principales hábitos de uso y consumo de las aplicaciones móviles que están destinadas a personas mayores pero, sobre todo, el nivel de conocimiento y preparación que tienen sobre las mismas. La finalidad es comprobar si la competencia mediática en materia tecnológica de nuestros mayores es la adecuada respecto a la oferta concreta actual. Para ello, se ha utilizado una metodología basada en encuestas de elaboración propia y realizadas a la población española en las que se retratan tanto el conocimiento de las principales aplicaciones para personas mayores, los hábitos de uso y consumo, así como el interés o no por parte de los mayores en la formación en nuevas tecnologías para realizar un mayor uso de este tipo de aplicaciones destinadas a ellos.Palabras Clave: Aplicaciones móviles, conocimiento, motivación, estrategia.ABSTRACTSpain is one of the western societies with a greater aged collective. In turn, it is a country in which there is a high development of technologies. This is the double face of a resulting situation that has caused a large digital divide between older people and the use of information technologies. This paper analyzes the main habits of use and consumption of mobile applications that are aimed at older people but, above all, the level of knowledge and preparation they have on them. The purpose is to check if the media competence in technological matters of our elders is adequate with respect to the current concrete offer. For this purpose, a methodology based on self-prepared surveys has been used and made to the Spanish population in which both the knowledge of the main applications for older people, the habits of use and consumption, as well as the interest or not in part of the majors in the formation in new technologies to realize a greater use of this type of applications destined to them.Keywords: Mobile applications, knowledge, motivation, strategy.

Transforming Digital Literacy With Culturally Diverse, Personalized Learning

2017 ◽  
pp. 170-195
Author(s):  
Patricia J. Donohue ◽  
Kevin Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Universal Design For Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Personalized Learning ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Media Literacy Education ◽  
Design For Learning

The chapter reports on the research and efforts of two faculty members in an Instructional Technologies (ITEC) Master's program to transform their undergraduate and graduate courses into culturally sensitive personalized learning experiences in media literacy education. The 20-year-old ITEC program needed upgrading to meet the paradigm shift in new technologies and global education that its students would enter on graduation. Cultural and social justice issues have been the mission of the University for 40 years and that dimension of media literacy education was missing from the ITEC curricula. Researchers found that introducing techniques of gamification, heutagogical methods, and universal design for learning principles into their online and blended-learning courses provided a way to help students personalize their learning experience and interact more engagingly with each other, and to master the media literacy skills being taught.

New Faces of Digital Divide and How to Bridge It

2018 ◽  
pp. 7248-7258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktor Freiman ◽  
Dragana Martinovic ◽  
Xavier Robichaud
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Cognitive Content ◽  
Special Groups ◽  
Political Access ◽  
Intellectual Limitations

The chapter aims to explore, through the lenses of digital divide, what are challenges to alleviating socio-economic and intellectual limitations for prosperity of each individual. Cutting-edge research is reviewed to discuss in what way new technologies and access to them really help to develop citizens who are able to contribute in creative and democratic ways to society. While much effort has been done, in the past decade, to bridge the digital divide, by resolving access issues and usage issues, the recent studies seem to indicate that the gap at all levels, nation-wide, community-wide, special groups-wide still exists and even deepens, especially regarding digital inclusion and meeting needs of at-risk population. More systematic research and innovative practical solutions are needed to address all the aspects of digital divide: physical, financial cognitive, content and political access; also, we have to consider the technological and social resonances of digital technologies in terms of digital literacy and development of critical thinking.

New Faces of Digital Divide and How to Bridge It

2019 ◽  
pp. 431-443
Author(s):  
Viktor Freiman ◽  
Dragana Martinovic ◽  
Xavier Robichaud
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Cognitive Content ◽  
Special Groups ◽  
Political Access ◽  
Intellectual Limitations

The chapter aims to explore, through the lens of digital divide, the challenges to alleviating socio-economic and intellectual limitations for prosperity of each individual. Cutting-edge research is reviewed to discuss in what way new technologies and access to them really help to develop citizens who are able to contribute in creative and democratic ways to society. While much effort has been done in the past decade to bridge the digital divide by resolving access issues and usage issues, the recent studies seem to indicate that the gap at all levels, nation-wide, community-wide, special groups-wide still exists and even deepens, especially regarding digital inclusion and meeting needs of at-risk population. More systematic research and innovative practical solutions are needed to address all the aspects of digital divide: physical, financial cognitive, content, and political access; also, we have to consider the technological and social resonances of digital technologies in terms of digital literacy and development of critical thinking.

An Interactive Ecosystem of Digital Literacy Services

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-31
Author(s):  
José Eder Guzmán-Mendoza ◽  
Jaime Muñoz-Arteaga ◽  
Ángel Eduardo Muñoz-Zavala ◽  
René Santaolaya-Salgado
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Educational Paradigm

Knowledge Society (KS) is influenced by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), economic changes, political, cultural and social concepts allowing access to other levels of welfare and progress. However, the differences in terms of access and ICT skills between different groups in society have created a problem of digital divide. To overcome this problem, models and strategies are required to achieve a greater impact on the population and that population can develop skills that enhance inclusion in the society knowledge. This work proposes an Interactive Ecosystem of digital literacy that aims to set a new educational paradigm approach to encourage different learning communities to uses new technologies of information and communication that allows them to be more competitive in today's world and thus shorten the digital divide. Finally, a case study is shown as an implementation of the ecosystem throughout an architectural model in the state of Aguascalientes, México.

scholarly journals Education in mobility

Comunicar ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Gómez-Aguilar ◽  
María de los Ángeles Martínez-García
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Portable Devices ◽  
Global Society ◽  
Digital Contents ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías

Nowadays, digitalization of contents constitutes one of the keys of the development in the educational sector. The ubiquitous proliferation of mobile phones and portable devices, added to the development of the access to wide band, changes the scene of distribution of digital contents through communication nets, removing the need for the support and the physical delivery. Education in mobility implies the education of critical receivers, with skills in the new technologies (media literacy) in our global society. La digitalización de los contenidos constituye una de las claves del desarrollo del sector educativo en la actualidad. La proliferación ubicua de dispositivos móviles y portátiles, sumada al desarrollo del acceso a banda ancha, plantea un nuevo escenario de distribución de los contenidos digitales a través de las redes de comunicación, eliminando la necesidad del soporte y la distribución física. La educación en móvil(idad) pasa por la formación de receptores críticos, diestros en las nuevas tecnologías (alfabetización mediática) en el seno de la sociedad global.

scholarly journals USO DE INTERNET Y SU RELACIÓN CON EL CLIMA FAMILIAR Y EL BULLYING

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 245
Author(s):  
Mª del Carmen Pichardo Martínez ◽  
María Fernández Cabezas ◽  
Mª Trinidad García Berbén ◽  
Ana Belén García Berbén
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Internet Bullying ◽  
The Family ◽  
Fast Pace ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
First Contact

Abstract.More and more teens are starting to use the Internet, because of the fast pace with which our society is digitized. Their first contact with this tool are produced mostly in the field schooling due to its forced utilization for learning about new technologies of information and communication. An misfit use can cause the emergence of maladaptive behaviors, such as bullying or cyberbullying. So it is important to research on the social climate in the classroom and the family as direct scenario where children develop a caring atmosphere influencing them different educational styles. Depending on how your education and develop social or antisocial guidelines. These behaviours reflecting itself in both physical and virtual reality. To prevent, it is important to investigate the factors that predispose or warn one unadapted tuning in Internet use.Keywords: Family environment, use of Internet, bullying, victim, aggressor.Resumen.Cada vez son más los adolescentes que comienzan a usar Internet debido al ritmo vertiginoso con que se digitaliza nuestra sociedad. Sus primeros contactos con esta herramienta se producen mayormente en el ámbito escolar debido a su obligada utilización para el aprendizaje en cuanto a nuevas Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC) se refiere. Un uso desadaptado puede provocar la aparición de conductas desadaptivas, como bullying, o ciberbullying. Parece necesario investigar sobre el clima social en el aula y la familia, como escenarios directos, donde los hijos se desarrollan en un ambiente afectivo influyendo en ellos las pautas de comportamiento de padres y profesores. Dependiendo de cómo sea su educación así desarrollará unas pautas sociales o antisociales. Para prevenir, es importante investigar sobre los factores que predisponen o advierten una sintomatología en el uso desadaptado de Internet.Palabras claves: clima familiar, uso de Internet, bullying, victima, agresor

scholarly journals Uso de las redes sociales y la brecha digital en el tejido asociativo inmigrante de España

2020 ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
Jenny Carolina Tovar Parra ◽  
Javier Ernesto Torralba Vásquez
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact

Resumen: Son innumerables las investigaciones que se han realizado en el mundo sobre los efectos y beneficios de las nuevas tecnologías versus población y la ciudad digital en sus análisis y conclusiones consideran que existe una nueva problemática en el mundo a la que se le denominó “brecha digital”. Sin embargo, no se han realizado investigaciones acerca del efecto que tienen las nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación TICS sobre el tejido asociativo inmigrante de Argelia, Bulgaria, Colombia, Ecuador, Mali, Marruecos, Rumania y Senegal en España. El objetivo principal de esta investigación es determinar la incidencia de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en el tejido asociativo inmigrante en España, así como conocer el uso de éstas en el quehacer cotidiano de las asociaciones y sus implicaciones para las mismas, partiendo de una metodología no experimental, comparativa, descriptiva y de etnografía virtual. En sus conclusiones queda claro que la brecha digital afecta las asociaciones a partir de la diferenciación entre las que tienen acceso a internet, los conocimientos para el acceso y cuentan con contenidos de calidad, de las asociaciones que no.   Palabras clave: Tecnologías de la información, Redes Sociales, Migración.   Abstract: Countless researches have been done in the world on the effects and benefits of the new technologies of information and communication ICT versus population and the digital city in its analysis and conclusions consider that there is a new problematic in the world called "digital divide". However, there are not conducted researches about the effects that ICT has had on the immigrant associations network of Algeria, Bulgaria, Colombia, Ecuador, Mali, Morocco, Romania, and Senegal in Spain. The main objective of this article is to analyze the impact of new information and communication technologies on the immigrant network in Spain, as well as knowing the use of them in the daily work and their implications for them based, starting from a non-experimental, comparative, descriptive and virtual ethnography methodology. In its conclusions is clear that the digital divide affects these associations from the differentiation between those with internet access, the skills to access and the quality on the contents, from those without internet access   Key words: Information Technologies, Social Networks, Migration.

scholarly journals Public Policies, Gaps and Digital Literacy of the Elderly People

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-158
Author(s):  
Carolina Riveros ◽  
Ángela Arenas ◽  
Marcela Castro ◽  
Maximiliano Olivares
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Current Development ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Access Policies

Purpose ”“ In the current development of Chilean society there is a profound socio-demographic transformation, which implies an advanced aging of the population. Methodology ”“ According to the 2017 Census, 17.7 percent - equivalent to 1,586,634 women - are 60 years of age or older, while men in the same age group account for 14.7 percent (1,263,537). This age group constitutes an enormous challenge for the design of public policies. Findings ”“ It is necessary to generate access policies that take into account the different educational levels of older people in order to overcome the digital divide, as well as incentives for skills and competencies in the various uses and benefits currently provided by ICTs.

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