Technological appropriation, digital skills and digital competences of university students: Systematic mapping of literature

Abstract

The representation of the term digital gap continues to be controversial, not only due to the excessive effort to reduce it -which continues to project itself as a challenge in various latitudes-, but due to its complexity in achieving it. In Mexico, specifically, actions are established from the educational field to study the gap that exists for access, use and knowledge of technology, among other technological deficiencies. Accordingly, the objective of the work is to respond to some of these challenges, from the approach to the field of innovation and educational research, an area that makes important contributions to differentiate what is happening in the national and international context in relation to the use of information and communication technologies. In this first approach, exploratory research is supported by the Systematic Review of Literature through a methodological adaptation, proposed by García-Peñalvo (2017), structured in two phases: 1) systematic mapping of the literature, and 2) the in-depth review of the literature. The article presents the results of the first phase, which constitutes the analysis of 170 articles and a book extracted from databases that provide open access to articles, such as Scopus, SciELO and Redalyc; the work exposes the definitions of the three variables that motivate the study: Technological appropriation, digital skills and digital skills; Among the most relevant findings, it is displayed that emerging concepts are associated with digital learning, where a high percentage of young university students are involved today.