Strengthening ICT competencies in Higher Secondary Education teachers to improve teaching practice in the health emergency of Covid 19

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 has brought enormous challenges and challenges to the global education system. The crisis has demonstrated the vulnerability of current educational models, their rapid and accelerated spread throughout the world has caused an unprecedented impact on the multidimensional development of the population. This brought as a possible solution the implementation and accelerated adaptation of working at a distance with approaches oriented to the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), The project proposed as an objective to evaluate the knowledge and skills management of upper secondary teachers (northern part of the state of Nayarit), before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study is a non-experimental descriptive transectional study with a sample of teachers from the three Preparatory Academic Units of the UAN. A non-probability convenience sampling was used using two pre-designed questionnaires through the Google Forms platform, one at the beginning and the other at the end. With this project it was detected that no teacher uses digital tools at the beginning for online classes.