Iniciativas pedagógicas para el “uso responsable” de los dispositivos móviles en centros de educación secundaria obligatoria.

Laburpena

Mobile technology devices are intensively used by young people at school age, regardless of where they are. According to a recent study, 85% of young people in the European Union use the Internet almost on a daily basis, 77% watching TV and 66% managing social networks (VVAA 2014. Jóvenes y comunicación. Madrid: Centro Reina Sofía). Despite the undoubted benefits attributed to the management of these technologies, there are also several risks where teenage users can be affected on having realized a ‘not responsible use’. Given the potential conflicts that can arise and the increased concern among the different education agents, we began a research focusing on the analysis of the various proposals for intervention in secondary education institutions to educate on responsible use. The overall objective of our work plan is to study different contributions to the formation of responsible citizenship in the use of mobile technologies. Within the same we consider, based on the results, to design a teaching material to attend to the needs identified in this field. After the search and cataloging of the different initiatives, we focus on results regarding the actions of the National Police Force (Spanish: CNP) wich, based on the ‘Plan Director para la Convivencia y Mejora de la Seguridad Escolar’, are carrying out numerous performances in compulsory secondary education centres. As we are doing with other initiatives, in this case the methodology used is the analysis of diverse material, semi-structured interviews to the implied agents and observation of the development of the different initiatives in the centers