Early childhood teachers their digital competencies and perspectives today (Original)

Abstract

The digital competences of early childhood teachers at present constitute an attractive topic from the educational field, at any of its educational levels. Different studies show that early childhood teachers do not have the necessary digital skills to more adequately face the emerging challenges in their profession from their work with children of the first ages, given their constant transformation, society demands from professionals permanently improve their preparation, with a view to showing a general culture, which is reflected in their professional performance; For this, professional improvement constitutes a way to achieve such purposes so that in this way educators can contribute to the integral development of children.  The article aims to expose the diagnosis of the initial state of improvement of early childhood educators in digital skills, the teachers of the Future Cosmonauts children's circle were selected as a sample, how the general method was assumed the dialectical materialist and were used In addition, theoretical methods such as historical-logical analysis, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, hypothetical-deductive, modeling and systemic-structural functional. Among the empirical ones, the analysis of documents, the observation, the interview and the methodological triangulation technique were applied; Statistical methods, frequency distribution analysis, and indicator index calculation were also used. The diagnosis and regularities of the process of overcoming early childhood educators on digital skills were obtained as a result.