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To satisfy the imperative need for developing life skills in basic education students throughout the country, it is important to think about continue educational inclusion, which is to be understood as the idea of Education for All. Education for all should satisfy the basic needs of learning while developing the individual and social welfare of each student. From this perspective, it is necessary to reflect on how to make students citizens who make decisions and assume consequences, so that they can act with critical judgment. For this, it is necessary to inspect and reconstruct the essence of critical, creative and careful thinking, the essence of learning to think.

The intention of the present paper is to show that people have a series of educational needs in the era of information, so that they can become competent digital citizens. These educational needs are evident in the policies promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, which were well known to Latin American governments of the decades from the 1960s to the 1990s. Therefore, it is to be hoped that the educational reforms of 1990s have elements based on the principles of education that they advanced, which emphasises the preparation of subjects in the digital era, based on advances in information and communication technology, focusing on the teaching and learning of computer science. [For the complete Volume 17 proceedings, see ED596826.]