Genially for strengthening digital literacy in technical high school teachers in Galapagos

Abstract

Digital literacy enables people to learn, work, and perform in today's society, integrating cognitive, technological, and social skills that facilitate exchange, collaboration, and participation through digital technologies. This research aims to propose a didactic training strategy based on the use of Genially, aimed at teachers of the Technical Baccalaureate in Informatics at the National Educational Unit of Galápagos, to contribute to their digital literacy. The methodology employs a mixed-methods approach integrating qualitative and quantitative perspectives, applied to solve a specific problem. It is descriptive-explanatory in nature, focusing on the current state of the topic under study, and is cross-sectional because it was developed in a single time period with a sample of 28 students and 7 teachers, taken from a population of 60 students and 12 teachers. The results yielded a precise diagnosis of the shortcomings in the digital literacy of teachers at this level and the proposal of a didactic training strategy based on the use of Genially, which contributes to their digital literacy, minimizes the impact of identified shortcomings and maximizes the advantages of the Genially platform, integrating technological, pedagogical and curricular knowledge; concluding that the proposed didactic strategy harmonizes the components of digital literacy such as: use of technology, critical understanding, collaboration on the network and, creation and socialization of knowledge, in addition to setting guidelines to reduce the digital divide and educational inequalities in isolated communities.