the 65% of Andalusian teachers lack training to use digital whiteboards

A survey by the Independent Trade Union Confederation and ITUC-F Civil Servants shows that the 65% of teachers in Andalusia do not have enough training to use the digital whiteboard in classrooms.

CSI-F has conducted a survey among more than a thousand Andalusian teachers and professors in which it is shown that a 65 percent of teachers do not have enough training to properly use the digital whiteboard. The union has indicated in a statement that this data shows “the serious training deficit” with which the ICT School is being launched 2.0, thanks to which there are already installed electronic whiteboards and digital cannons in a total of 12.654 Classrooms.

For CSI-F it turns out “surprising” that the 65 percent of teachers feel they are not sufficiently prepared to use the digital whiteboard in the classroom because that is “mortgage the future of the ICT School 2.0, last star program of the Ministry of Education, as evidenced by the significant investment made”, regrets the president of the Education Sector of the union in Andalusia, Francisco Hidalgo.

In his opinion, the Junta de Andalucía “you don't just have to buy equipment, it also has to train teachers to use them in the classroom”. In this line, highlights that the survey also detects that only the 20 percent of teachers consider that they have an advanced level of computer science, being the user level the one that more teachers and professors claim to have (one 60%).

“Especially clarifying” for CSI-F is the percentage of teachers who claim to have received the training they have in computer science through the Educational Administration: just a 28 percent, in front of the 71 that has received it through private channels. In this context, the 46 percent of teachers believe that the training offer of the Educational Administration is “regular” and almost the 29 percent “insufficient”, in front of the 22 percent who value it as “good”.

In addition, the consultation reflects that for the 77 percent of Andalusian teachers new technologies facilitate student learning, while the 18 percent believe not. CSI-F also points out how “notorious” the fact that for the 63 percent of teachers new technologies do not improve students' grades, “attributing to it, therefore, an important motivating function but making it clear that good academic results have a lot to do with personal effort, socio-economic environment and family commitment”, concludes Hidalgo.

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