Digital culture in the school plan

At the meeting of the Working Group of ICT in education which took place on October 4, 2012 in Merida, proposed work and lines of action of the Ministry of education, culture and Sport (MECD) in the field of ICT in education for the next few years.

The meeting discussed that the MECD performances will be according to autonomous communities (regions), in a space of collaboration and joint decision, and that the projects defined must have dimension State, since only thus will have sufficient critical mass and ensure its sustainability. With this will, it was decided to draw up a Plan of Digital culture in school.

In this framework, the Ministry opened a process of shared reflection, with the participation of the autonomous communities, external experts and heads of the MECD, to define such a plan for the coming years and develop and implement, in the following school years, specific projects to the service of its users (teachers, educational managers, students, families) and citizens in general.

Specifically, the reflection process was structured into five groups of experts linked to the five priority projects of the plan:

I connectivity of schools
II. Interoperabilidad and standards
III. space "Commons" of open content
IV. general catalogue of educational resources of payment: neutral
V. teaching digital competence

In addition, two projects stand, with two additional groups, have been defined oriented to strengthen the dynamics of collaborative work between CCAA and improve channels of communication and interrelation telematics with the educational community:

VI. collaboration with autonomous spaces
VII. Web and social networks

These seven groups met for the first time in November-December, 2012, and will be maintained throughout the period of the plan as a space of encounter and reflection shared with the aim to support and assess progress in each of its priority projects:

Plan projects	Brief description
I connectivity of schools	Move towards full access of schools to Internet in coordination with the autonomous communities, improving the quality of access in a viable and sustainable way through agreements with agents of the telecommunications sector.
II. Interoperabilidad and standards	Setting standards in the field of educational ICT and promoting the regulatory development of specific interoperability standards for the educational use of ICT within the framework of the national interoperability scheme.
III. space "Commons" of open content	Design the evolution of the educational content repository adds, to become a common area of contents in open that can participate actively throughout the educational community.
IV. general catalogue of educational resources of payment: neutral	Promote agreements with the different agents involved and defining the structure of the meeting point between suppliers of digital textbooks and other educational resources and potential users of the same.
V. teaching digital competence	Establishing a model of development of digital competence of teachers in its various dimensions and levels.
VI. collaboration with autonomous spaces	To create a space that serves as a meeting point between the autonomous communities and the Ministry to work together.
VII. Web and social networks	Evolve towards the logic of single educational portal and develop a strategy of presence on social networks that promotes interaction with the educational community.