Self-perception of the digital competence of undergraduate students in Social Education with Ikanos

Abstract

digital competence is a key competence that involves the creative, critical and safe use of ICT. Social Education professionals must follow this line to be competent citizens in a digitized society. Thus, the need to develop this competence is included in the White book of the bachelor's degree in Pedagogy and Social Education. This study aims to analyze the self-perception of digital competence of students in the degree in Social Education. for this, the Ikanos Test is used. 266 students from the University of deusto from three courses participated in the study. The results indicate a low self-perception of digital competence. The items with the lowest scores correspond to the competences of innovation, security of personal data and privacy, and programming. however, the skills of storing and retrieving information, and interacting are the highest mean scores.