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the challenge that teachers have today is to teach with strategies that integrate technological tools to streamline their practice and thereby develop their digital skills considering the needs of the 21st century. However, this does not always happen. The basic teachers of a rural educational institution in the department of Magdalena, Colombia, although they have some technological means, do not use them in pedagogical practices, because they do not have the necessary training for their management and educational uses. This article describes a teachinglearning process based on the structuring of a Digital Competence Route around Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Technologies for Learning and Knowledge (TAC), and Technologies for Empowerment and Participation (TEP). The results of the training showed important changes concerning to the way teachers managed to overcome the instrumental level of the use of technology to appropriate it with a pedagogical sense, which allowed them to project teaching and learning actions that transcend the classroom and promote social participation and digital mobilization. The contribution of this study lies in the fact that it can be taken as a reference for other training processes in digital skills for teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper researches the key issues to adopt information and communication technologies (ICT) at the Ecuadorian industrial area based on 2010 census data of 14,324 industrial firms. To do that, we used a Probit model estimating ICT implementation probability based on a series of its own features. All together, the adoption of ICT of industrial enterprises in Ecuador is considerably low; only 11 percent has internet connection, email 13 percent, and 3 percent website. Sales volumes along with size of firms are factors influencing the diffusion of these key issues within firms. The conventionalism, the location of the firm in large cities, and sectors developing capital goods are the other key factors to take into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]