The digital competences of early childhood educators

Abstract

The development of digital skills in early childhood educators is a highly topical topic; above all, if one takes into account all the changes that have occurred in today's society and the improvement of the early childhood curriculum for which they are prepared. Hence, the need to develop digital skills in educators to more adequately face the emerging challenges in their profession from working with children from the earliest ages of child development so that these educators can contribute to making the goal a reality. initial and preschool education; achieve the maximum possible comprehensive development of each of the children, which is why this article aimed to socialize an improvement strategy aimed at the development of digital skills of early childhood educators that required the use of theoretical methods such as the historical-logical, the analytical-synthetic and the inductive-deductive, which made possible the theoretical foundation of the overcoming strategy; as well as the empirical ones: the survey and the observation, to know the level of development of the digital competences of the educators who participated in the investigation. The main result was precisely the improvement strategy and the methodological suggestions for its implementation. Its application in practice evidenced favorable transformations in the level of development of the competition under analysis; thus, reaffirming its feasibility and, above all, the relevance of training its skills.