Use of Technological Resources by Social Education Students in Spain

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to study the use and educational application of technical resources by students of Social Education (SE) in Spain. The reasons for this research were based on the importance of gaining a deep command of the various skills associated with information and communication technologies in the acquisition of generic competencies. The research we conducted was a descriptive and interpretative study designed from a quantitative‐qualitative perspective. The questionnaire was selected as the main data collection tool. Among its most important findings, the research has revealed that SE students are not frequent users of most new technologies, and that they usually copy the behaviours of their teachers in their educational application of technologies. 1. This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science under Project No. SEJ2004‐06803.