Digital technologies and educational change. a critical approach

Abstract

This article analyzes and reflects on the impact of digital technologies on the pedagogical transformation of the school system from the standpoint of critical educational technology. To this end, it begins by identifying the most salient features or effects of what the pedagogical disruption of technology on the school should entail. Based on these, four currently relevant themes or topics are addressed and analyzed, such as a) Covid 19 and the closure of schools: The unexpected impulse of digital instruction; b) The pedagogical and organizational integration of ICT in schools; c) The metamorphosis of didactic materials. The analysis is made from analog to digital resources; and d) digital teaching competence. Between micro-skills taxonomies and holistic approaches. The article ends by concluding that there has not yet been a digital disruption of the school institution, but that progress is being made in that direction. It must not only innovate teaching methods and strategies, but also the meaning, goals, academic organization, professional functions of teachers, and ultimately, the functionality of the school in the context of the digital society.